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Near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centres are critical to many diamond-based quantum technologies such as information processors and nanosensors. Surface defects play an important role in the design and performance of these devices. The…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile candidates for many quantum information processing tasks, ranging from quantum imaging and sensing through to quantum communication and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Michael Hanks , Michael Trupke , Jörg Schmiedmayer , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Electron and nuclear spins of diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are good candidates for quantum information processing as they have long coherence time and can be initialized and read out optically. However, creating a large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Zhujing Xu , Zhang-qi Yin , Qinkai Han , Tongcang Li

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a well utilized system for quantum technology, in particular quantum sensing and microscopy. Fully employing the NV center's capabilities for metrology requires a strong understanding of the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 M. S. J. Barson , P. M. Reddy , S. Yang , N. B. Manson , J. Wrachtrup , M. W. Doherty

Quantum computing is an attractive and multidisciplinary field, which became a focus for experimental and theoretical research during last decade. Among other systems, like ions in traps or superconducting circuits, solid-states based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Jelezko , J. Wrachtrup

Accurately estimating the performance of quantum hardware is crucial for comparing different platforms and predicting the performance and feasibility of quantum algorithms and applications. In this paper, we tackle the problem of…

Nuclear spins in semiconductors are leading candidates for quantum technologies, including quantum computation, communication, and sensing. Nuclear spins in diamond are particularly attractive due to their extremely long coherence lifetime.…

Quantum computing is a rapidly developing field. However, the most commonly used qubits require cryogenic conditions to operate, which increases the costs and puts constraints on the up-scaling. Ambient solid-state qubits provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Boo Carmans , Michael Petrov , Milos Nesladek

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a widely-utilized system due to its useful quantum properties. Almost all research focuses on the negative charge state (NV$^-$) and comparatively little is understood about the neutral charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 M. S. J. Barson , E. Krausz , N. B. Manson , M. W. Doherty

Three-dimensional arrays of silicon transistors increase the density of bits. Solid-state qubits are much larger so could benefit even more from using the third dimension given that useful fault-tolerant quantum computing will require at…

Certain point defects in solids can efficiently be used as qubits for applications in quantum technology. They have spin states that are initializable, readable, robust, and can be manipulated optically. New theoretical methods are needed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kristoffer Simula , Ilja Makkonen

Point defects in diamond may act as quantum bits. Recently, oxygen-vacancy related defects have been proposed to the origin of the so-called ST1 color center in diamond that can realize a long-living solid-state quantum memory. Motivated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Nima Ghafari Cherati , Gergő Thiering , Ádám Gali

The implementation of a high-fidelity two-qubit quantum logic gate remains an outstanding challenge for isolated solid-state qubits such as Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. In this work, we show that by driving pairs of NV centers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Chenxu Liu , M. V. Gurudev Dutt , David Pekker

As a point defect with unique spin and optical properties, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has attracted much attention in the fields of quantum sensing, quantum simulation, and quantum networks. The optical properties of an NV…

We propose a fast, scalable all-optical design for arbitrary two-qubit operations for defect qubits in diamond (NV centers) and in silicon carbide, which are promising candidates for room temperature quantum computing. The interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Dmitry Solenov , Sophia E. Economou , Thomas L. Reinecke

The controlled and coherent manipulation of individual quantum systems is a fundamental key for the development of quantum information processing. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is a promising system since its…

The unique quantum properties of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond have motivated efforts to find defects with similar properties in silicon carbide (SiC), which can extend the functionality of such systems not available to the…

Selective control of qubits in a quantum register for the purposes of quantum information processing represents a critical challenge for dense spin ensembles in solid state systems. Here we present a protocol that achieves a complete set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 J. Casanova , Z. -Y. Wang , M. B. Plenio

Engineering a strongly interacting uniform qubit cluster would be a major step towards realizing a scalable quantum system for quantum sensing, and a node-based qubit register. For a solid-state system that uses a defect as a qubit, various…

Diamond is a host for a wide variety of colour centres that have demonstrated outstanding optical and spin properties. Among them, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre is by far the most investigated owing to its superior characteristics, which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 J. Achard , V. Jacques , A. Tallaire