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We report hyperpolarization of the electronic spins associated with substitutional nitrogen defects in bulk diamond crystal. Hyperpolarization is achieved by optical pumping of nitrogen vacancy centers followed by rapid cross relaxation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 M. Loretz , H. Takahashi , T. F. Segawa , J. M. Boss , C. L. Degen

The sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) depends strongly on nuclear spin polarisation and, motivated by this observation, dynamical nuclear spin polarisation has recently been applied to enhance MRI protocols (Kurhanewicz, J.,…

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) can increase nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals by orders of magnitude. DNP in diamond proceeds through different DNP mechanisms with a possible temperature-dependence. We report on 13C dynamic…

We use microwave-induced dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) of the substitutional nitrogen defects (P1 centers) in diamond to hyperpolarize bulk $^{13}$C nuclei in both single crystal and powder samples at room temperature at 3.34 T. The…

Precision measurements based on optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance offer exquisite sensitivity to absolute shifts in spin transition frequencies, with potential applications in fundamental physics experiments and inertial…

Dynamic nuclear polarisation, which transfers the spin polarisation of electrons to nuclei, is routinely applied to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance; it is also critical in spintronics, particularly when spin…

We demonstrate optically pumped dynamic nuclear polarization of 29-Si nuclear spins that are strongly coupled to paramagnetic color centers in 4H- and 6H-SiC. The 99 +/- 1% degree of polarization at room temperature corresponds to an…

Efficient polarization of organic molecules is of extraordinary relevance when performing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and imaging. Commercially available routes to dynamical nuclear polarization (DNP) work at extremely…

By applying a new technique for dynamic nuclear polarization involving simultaneous excitation of electronic and nuclear transitions, we have enhanced the nuclear polarization of the nitrogen nuclei in 15N@C60 by a factor of 1000 at a fixed…

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) of molecules in a solution at room temperature has potential to revolutionize nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. The prevalent methods for achieving DNP in solutions are typically most…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Qiong Chen , Ilai Schwarz , Fedor Jelezko , Alex Retzker , Martin B Plenio

We report on further investigation of nuclear hyperpolarization of helium-3 in magnetized plasma at a magnetic field of 3.66 T and at different experimental conditions in a dual cell of relatively large volume, compared to those reported in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Alexander Makarchenko , Vyacheslav Kuzmin , Kajum Safiullin , Murat Tagirov

Color-center-hosting semiconductors are emerging as promising source materials for low-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) at or near room temperature, but hyperfine broadening, susceptibility to magnetic field heterogeneity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Henshaw , D. Pagliero , P. R. Zangara , B. Franzoni , A. Ajoy , R. Acosta , J. A. Reimer , A. Pines , C. A. Meriles

A broad effort is underway to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance through the use of dynamic nuclear polarization. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer an appealing platform because these paramagnetic defects can…

We report a measurement of the nuclear polarization of laser-cooled, optically-pumped $^{37}\mathrm{K}$ atoms which will allow us to precisely measure angular correlation parameters in the beta-decay of the same atoms. These results will be…

Nanodiamond is poised to become an attractive material for hyperpolarized 13C MRI if large nuclear polarizations can be achieved without the accompanying rapid spin-relaxation driven by paramagnetic species. Here we report enhanced and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 T. Boele , D. E. J. Waddington , T. Gaebel , E. Rej , A. Hasija , L. J. Brown , D. R. McCamey , D. J. Reilly

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a method of enhancing NMR signals via the transfer of polarization from electron spins to nuclear spins using on-resonance microwave (MW) irradiation. In most cases, monochromatic continuous-wave (MCW)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Daphna Shimon , Kelly A. Cantwell , Linta Joseph , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

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

Dynamical nuclear polarisation (DNP) is an important technique that uses polarisation transfer from electron to nuclear spins to achieve nuclear hyperpolarisation. As the electron spin of the nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond can be…

The use of hyperpolarized agents in magnetic resonance (MR), such as 13C-labeled compounds, enables powerful new imaging and detection modalities that stem from a 10,000-fold boost in signal. A major challenge for the future of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ewa Rej , Torsten Gaebel , Thomas Boele , David E. J. Waddington , David J. Reilly

After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond have been proposed as a non-invasive platform to achieve hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins in molecular samples over macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 J. -P. Tetienne , L. T. Hall , A. J. Healey , G. A. L. White , M. -A. Sani , F. Separovic , L. C. L. Hollenberg