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We present a technique that uses an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to image magnetic fields with high spatio-temporal resolution and sensitivity. A focused laser beam is raster-scanned using an acousto-optic deflector…

Two dimensional electronic spectroscopy and transient grating measurements were performed, for the first time, on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. These measurements reveal energy transfer and vibrational pathways with consequences for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 V. M. Huxter , T. A. A. Oliver , D. Budker , G. R. Fleming

Diamond quantum sensors offer high precision and spatial resolution as magnetic probes, making them promising for a wide range of applications. While diamond anvil cells (DACs) can generate extremely high pressures, techniques for…

Sensing of signals from biological processes, such as action potential propagation in nerves, are essential for clinical diagnosis and basic understanding of physiology. Sensing can be performed electrically by placing sensor probes near or…

Compression experiments are widely used to study the mechanical properties of materials at micro- and nanoscale. However, the conventional engineering stress measurement method used in these experiments neglects to account for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Jalal Smiri , Oguz Umut Salman , Matteo Ghidelli , Ioan R. Ionescu

Nematic order in the iron-based superconductors is closely tied to a lattice distortion and a structural transition from tetragonal to orthorhombic symmetry. External stress of the appropriate symmetry acts as a conjugate field of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-07 Roland Willa , Max Fritz , Jörg Schmalian

Micro- and nanothermometry enable precise temperature monitoring and control at the micro- and nanoscale, and have become essential diagnostic tools in applications ranging from high-power microelectronics to biosensing and nanomedicine.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Md Shakhawath Hossain , Dylan G. Stone , G. Landry , Xiaoxue Xu , Carlo Bradac , Toan Trong Tran

We present an alternative to conventional Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy equipment. Avoiding the use of bulky magnets and magnetron equipment, we use the photoluminescence of an ensemble of Nitrogen-Vacancy centers at…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 C. Mignon , A. R. Ortiz Moreno , H. Shirzad , S. K. Padamati , V. Damle , Y. Ong , R. Schirhagl , M. Chipaux

We study the contrast for electrical and optical readout of NV centers in diamond in dependence of the optical excitation wavelength using different excitation schemes. While the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) works…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Lina M. Todenhagen , Martin S. Brandt

Color centers have emerged as a leading qubit candidate for realizing hybrid spin-photon quantum information technology. One major limitation of the platform, however, is that the characteristics of individual color-centers are often strain…

Scanning-probe and wide-field magnetic microscopes based on Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have enabled remarkable advances in the study of biology and materials, but each method has drawbacks. Here, we implement an alternative…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are atom-scale defects with long spin coherence times that can be used to sense magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution. Typically, the magnetic field projection at a single…

Cellular traction forces are conventionally measured by tracking the displacement of beads or micropillars, an approach fundamentally limited by optical diffraction and the classical Euler-Bernoulli beam assumption, which is accurate only…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Linjie Ma , Bicong Wang , Tai Nam Yip , Yong Hou , Yuan Lin , Zhiqin Chu

The sharp optical resonances of NV- centers in diamond at cryogenic temperatures offer powerful new capabilities for material characterization, but extracting the most detailed information typically requires careful calibration of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Jason Shao , Richard Monge , Tom Delord , Carlos A. Meriles

Studying the response of materials to strain can elucidate subtle properties of electronic structure in strongly correlated materials. So far, mostly the relation between strain and resistivity, the so called elastoresistivity, has been…

Precise coherent control of the individual electronic spins associated with atom-like impurities in the solid state is essential for applications in quantum information processing and quantum metrology. We demonstrate all-optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Yiwen Chu , Matthew Markham , Daniel J. Twitchen , Mikhail D. Lukin

Suspended drums made of 2D materials hold potential for sensing applications. However, the industrialization of these applications is hindered by significant device-to-device variations presumably caused by non-uniform stress distributions…

We present two complementary approaches to calculating the 2-point function of stress tensors in the presence of a 1/2 BPS surface defect of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theories. First, we use analytical bootstrap techniques at large $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Carlo Meneghelli , Maxime Trépanier

The sensitivity of magnetic and electric field sensors based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond strongly depends on the available concentration of NV and their coherence properties. Achieving high coherence times simultaneously with…

Cells and tissues are constantly exposed to various chemical and physical signals that intricately regulate various physiological and pathological processes. This study explores the integration of two biophysical methods, Traction Force…