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Solid-state magnetometers like the Nitrogen-Vacancy center in diamond have been of paramount importance for the development of quantum sensing with nanoscale spatial resolution. The basic protocol is a Ramsey sequence, that imprints an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Raúl Coto , Hossein T. Dinani , Ariel Norambuena , Mo Chen , Jerónimo R. Maze

Magnetometry based on diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers has been extensively studied for applications requiring diverse capabilities, spanning from nanometer spatial resolution to subpicotesla sensitivity. Among various applications,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-09 Jihongbo Shen , Heng Yuan , Hongyu Tao , Zekun Niu , Haoming Xu , Chentao Zhang , Chen Su , Zhuo Wang , Chen Zhang

Nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond provides a robust, solid-state platform for magnetic field measurements at room temperature. To harness its potential in inspecting inaccessible regions, here we present a compact endoscopic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-22 Satbir Singh , Hyunjong Lee , Nhu Anh Nguyen , Seonghyeon Kang , Jeong Hyun Shim , Sangwon Oh , Kwang-Geol Lee

We introduce a microwave-assisted spectroscopy technique to determine the relative concentrations of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are negatively-charged (NV${}^-$) and neutrally-charged (NV${}^0$), and present its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 D. P. L. Aude Craik , P. Kehayias , A. S. Greenspon , X. Zhang , M. J. Turner , J. M. Schloss , E. Bauch , C. A. Hart , E. L. Hu , R. L. Walsworth

The spatial resolution of imaging magnetometers has benefited from scanning probe techniques. The requirement that the sample perturbs the scanning probe through a magnetic field external to its volume limits magnetometry to samples with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. van Bree , M. E. Flatté

We demonstrate an absolute magnetometer immune to temperature fluctuation and strain inhomogeneity, based on quantum beats in the ground state of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. We apply this technique to measure low-frequency magnetic…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an ideal candidate for quantum sensors because of its excellent optical and coherence property. However, previous studies are usually conducted at low or room temperature. The lack of full…

Dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP) refers to a class of techniques used to increase the signal in nuclear magnetic resonance measurements by transferring spin polarisation from ensembles of highly polarised electrons to target nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 L. T. Hall , D. A. Broadway , A. Stacey , D. A. Simpson , J-P. Tetienne , L. C. L. Hollenberg

Nanodiamonds containing nitrogen vacancy (NV-) centers show promise for a number of emerging applications including targeted in vivo imaging and generating nuclear spin hyperpolarization for enhanced NMR spectroscopy and imaging. Here, we…

Diamond membrane devices containing optically coherent nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are key to enable novel cryogenic experiments such as optical ground-state cooling of hybrid spin-mechanical systems and efficient entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Maximilian Ruf , Mark IJspeert , Suzanne van Dam , Nick de Jong , Hans van den Berg , Guus Evers , Ronald Hanson

By using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, the vector components of a time-varying (AC) magnetic field are measured in a phase sensitive manner. This allows for the determination of the magnetic field's polarization. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 M. S. J. Barson , T. J. Christie , J. P. Duff , K. Helmerson

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a sensitive probe of magnetic field and a promising qubit candidate for quantum information processing. The performance of many NV-based devices improves by aligning the NV(s) parallel to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Todd Karin , Scott Dunham , Kai-Mei Fu

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can characterize and discriminate among tissues using their diverse physical and biochemical properties. Unfortunately, submicrometer screening of biological specimens is presently not possible, mainly due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 C. A. Meriles , L. Jiang , G. Goldstein , J. S. Hodges , J. R. Maze , M. D. Lukin , P. Cappellaro

Sensing techniques based on the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond have emerged as promising candidates to characterise ultra-thin and 2D materials. An outstanding challenge to this goal is isolating the contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 S. E. Lillie , D. A. Broadway , N. Dontschuk , A. Zavabeti , D. A. Simpson , T. Teraji , T. Daeneke , L. C. L. Hollenberg , J. -P. Tetienne

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading modality for magnetic sensing and imaging under ambient conditions. However, these sensors suffer from degraded performance due to paramagnetic impurities and regions of stress in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Connor Roncaioli , Connor Hart , Ronald Walsworth , Donald P. Fahey

Scanning magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has emerged as a powerful microscopy for studying weak stray field patterns with nanometer resolution. Due to the internal crystal anisotropy of the spin defect, however,…

By efficient nanoscale plasma etching, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond were brought to the sample surface step by step successfully. At each depth, we used the relative ratios of spin coherence times before and after applying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Wenlong Zhang , Jian Zhang , Junfeng Wang , Fupan Feng , Shengran Lin , Liren Lou , Wei Zhu , Guanzhong Wang

Understanding the profile of a qubit's wavefunction is key to its quantum applications. Unlike conducting systems, where a scanning tunneling microscope can be used to probe the electron distribution, there is no direct method for…

We demonstrate magnetometry by detection of the spin state of high-density nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond using optical absorption at 1042 nm. With this technique, measurement contrast, and collection efficiency can approach unity,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-13 V. M. Acosta , E. Bauch , A. Jarmola , L. J. Zipp , M. P. Ledbetter , D. Budker

We present theoretical proposals for two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy protocols based on Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are strongly coupled to the target nuclei. Continuous microwave and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Matthias Kost , Jianming Cai , Martin B. Plenio