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We demonstrate a technique for precision sensing of temperature or the magnetic field by simultaneously driving two hyperfine transitions involving distinct electronic states of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Frequency modulation…

Characterizing the low-energy dynamics of quantum materials is crucial to our understanding of strongly correlated electronic states. Yet, it remains experimentally challenging to investigate such dynamics with high spectroscopic resolution…

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

Precision sensing and imaging of weak static magnetic fields are crucial for a variety of emerging nanoscale applications. While nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond provide exceptional AC magnetic field sensitivity with nanoscale…

We present a new magnetometry method integrating an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond with an extended dynamic range for monitoring the fast changing magnetic-field. The NV-center spin resonance frequency…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are among the most promising solid-state qubit candidates, owing to their exceptionally long spin coherence times, efficient spin-photon coupling, room-temperature operation, and steadily advancing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Arjun Raghavan , Seokjin Bae , Nazar Delegan , F. Joseph Heremans , Vidya Madhavan

Various techniques have been applied to visualize superconducting vortices, providing clues to their electromagnetic response. Here, we present a wide-field, quantitative imaging of the stray field of the vortices in a superconducting thin…

Superparamagnetism in nanoscale magnetic layers is a critical property for a wide range of spintronic-based sensor and computing applications. While conventional magnetization measurements can detect superparamagnetic signatures, they often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shoaib Mahmud , Wei Zhang , Pronoy Das , Angshuman Deka , Wenbo Sun , Zubin Jacob

An ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond can act as a precise quantum sensor even under ambient conditions. In particular, to optimize thier sensitivity, it is crucial to increase the number of spins sampled and…

Knowledge of the nitrogen-vacancy center formation kinetics in diamond is critical to engineering sensors and quantum information devices based on this defect. Here we utilize the longitudinal tracking of single NV centers to elucidate NV…

Nanoscale thermometry is paramount to study primary processes of heat transfer in solids and is a subject of hot debate in cell biology. Here we report ultrafast temperature sensing using all-optical thermometry exploiting synthetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sumin Choi , Viatcheslav N. Agafonov , Valery A. Davydov , Taras Plakhotnik

Thin layers of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond substrates are the workhorse of NV-based widefield magnetic microscopy, which has applications in physics, geology and biology. Several methods exist to create such NV…

Many strongly correlated electronic materials, including high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance and metal-insulator-transition (MIT) materials, are inhomogeneous on a microscopic scale as a result of domain structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Jiang Wei , Zenghui Wang , Wei Chen , David H. Cobden

We report the possibility to simultaneously perform wide-field nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamond magnetic microscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements at high pressure. NV color centers are created on the culet of a diamond…

We experimentally demonstrate a method for measuring correlations of wideband magnetic signals with spatial resolution below the optical diffraction limit. Our technique employs two nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as nanoscale…

We demonstrated optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in microdiamonds inside a diamond anvil cell pressurized with nanopolycrystalline diamond (NPD) anvils. NPD exhibits high optical transparency,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Masahiro Ohkuma , Keigo Arai , Kenji Ohta , Toru Shinmei , Ryo Matsumoto , Yoshihiko Takano , Tetsuo Irifune

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy center (NV) in diamond forms a versatile system for quantum sensing applications. Combining the advantageous properties of this atomic-sized defect with scanning probe techniques such as atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Philipp Fuchs , Michel Challier , Elke Neu

We present nanoscale NMR measurements performed with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers located down to about 2 nm from the diamond surface. NV centers were created by shallow ion implantation followed by a slow, nanometer-by-nanometer removal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 M. Loretz , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , C. L. Degen

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is at the frontier of quantum nano-metrology and bio-sensing. Recent attention has focused on the application of high-sensitivity thermometry using the spin resonances of NV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Taras Plakhotnik , Marcus W. Doherty , Jared H. Cole , Robert Chapman , Neil B. Manson

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center magnetometry is a highly promising quantum sensing technology, with early prototypes demonstrating impressive sensitivity in compact sensing heads. Yet, most existing implementations remain tied to laboratory…