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We demonstrate a robust experimental method for determining the depth of individual shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond with $\sim1$ nm uncertainty. We use a confocal microscope to observe single NV centers and detect the…

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are well-established techniques that provide valuable information in a diverse set of disciplines but are currently limited to macroscopic sample volumes. Here we…

The protocols for the control and readout of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centres electron spins in diamond offer an advanced platform for quantum computation, metrology and sensing. These protocols are based on the optical readout of photons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 E. Bourgeois , A. Jarmola , M. Gulka , J. Hruby , D. Budker , M. Nesladek

Quantum technologies have seen a rapid developmental surge over the last couple of years. Though often overshadowed by quantum computation, quantum sensors show tremendous potential for widespread applications in chemistry and biology. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Robin D. Allert , Karl D. Briegel , Dominik B. Bucher

We present a solid state magnetic field imaging technique using a two dimensional array of spins in diamond. The magnetic sensing spin array is made of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers created at shallow depths. Their optical response is used…

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…

Single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are widely used as nanoscale sensors for magnetic and electric fields, strain and temperature. Nanoscale magnetometry using NV centers allows for example to quantitatively measure local magnetic fields…

We perform sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with spin ensembles which are polarized by nitrogen vacancy centers (NV centers) in diamond at room-temperature. With a near shot-noise-limited photoluminescence detection and a highly…

Magnetic spin resonance is a key non-invasive sensing and imaging technique across the life-, material- and fundamental sciences with further medical and commercial applications. Recent advances using paramagnetic color centers enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Florestan Ziem , Marwa Garsi , Helmut Fedder , Jörg Wrachtrup

Conventional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy relies on acquiring signal from a macroscopic ensemble of molecules to gain information about molecular structure and dynamics. Transferring this technique to nanoscale sample sizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Jeffrey Holzgrafe , Qiushi Gu , Jan Beitner , Dhiren Kara , Helena S. Knowles , Mete Atatüre

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center has enabled widespread study of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at low magnetic fields. NMR spectroscopy at high magnetic fields significantly improves the technique's spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Benjamin Fortman , Laura Mugica-Sanchez , Noah Tischler , Cooper Selco , Yuxiao Hang , Karoly Holczer , Susumu Takahashi

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful method for determining the structure of molecules and proteins. While conventional NMR requires averaging over large ensembles, recent progress with single-spin quantum sensors has created the…

Scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center electrometry has shown potential for quantitative quantum imaging of electric fields at the nanoscale. However, achieving nanoscale spatial resolution remains a challenge since employing gradiometry to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhi Cheng , Zhiwei Yu , Mengqi Wang , Lingfeng Yang , Zihao Cui , Ya Wang , Pengfei Wang

The implementation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at the nanoscale is a major challenge, as conventional systems require relatively large ensembles of spins and limit resolution to mesoscopic scales. New approaches based on quantum…

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…

We give instructions for the construction and operation of a simple apparatus for performing optically detected magnetic resonance measurements on diamond samples containing high concentrations of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. Each NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Haimei Zhang , Carina Belvin , Wanyi Li , Jennifer Wang , Julia Wainwright , Robbie Berg , Joshua Bridger

We present a novel approach to the detection of weak magnetic fields that takes advantage of recently developed techniques for the coherent control of solid-state electron spin quantum bits. Specifically, we investigate a magnetic sensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Taylor , P. Cappellaro , L. Childress , L. Jiang , D. Budker , P. R. Hemmer , A. Yacoby , R. Walsworth , M. D. Lukin

The electrical conductivity of a material can feature subtle, nontrivial, and spatially-varying signatures with critical insight into the material's underlying physics. Here we demonstrate a conductivity imaging technique based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Amila Ariyaratne , Dolev Bluvstein , Bryan A. Myers , Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centre in diamond has many exciting applications in quantum nano-metrology, including magnetometry, electrometry, thermometry and piezometry. Indeed, it is possible for a single NV- centre to…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum sensor with remarkably versatile sensing capabilities. While scanning NV magnetometry is well-established, NV electrometry has been so far limited to bulk diamonds. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ziwei Qiu , Assaf Hamo , Uri Vool , Tony X. Zhou , Amir Yacoby