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The increasing demand for ultrahigh data storage densities requires development of 3D magnetic nanostructures. In this regard, focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) is a technique of choice for direct-writing of various complex…

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We demonstrate a technique to nanofabricate nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond based on broad-beam nitrogen implantation through apertures in electron beam lithography resist. This method enables high-throughput nanofabrication of…

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Non-linear magnetization dynamics is essential for the operation of many spintronics devices. For microwave assisted switching of magnetic elements the low field regime is of particular interest. In addition a large number of experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Hans G. Bauer , Peter Majchrak , Torsten Kachel , Christian H. Back , Georg Woltersdorf

Quantum sensing based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has been developed as a powerful tool for microscopic magnetic resonance. However, the reported sensor-to-sample distance is limited within tens of nanometers because the…

Quantum sensing exploits the strong sensitivity of quantum systems to measure small external signals. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is one of the most promising platforms for real-world quantum sensing applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Ziwei Qiu , Uri Vool , Assaf Hamo , Amir Yacoby

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond enables optical initialization and readout of its electronic spin, forming the basis of a wide range of quantum sensing and metrology applications. A central challenge in such measurements is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Neil B. Manson , Morgan Hedges , Michael S. J. Barson , Carlos A. Meriles , Ronald Ulbricht , Marcus W. Doherty

We demonstrate a technique that enables ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements of the normal modes for magnetic excitations in individual nanoscale ferromagnets, smaller in volume by a factor of 1000 than can be probed by other methods.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Sankey , P. M. Braganca , A. G. F. Garcia , I. N. Krivorotov , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Micron scale imaging of magnetic fields is an important tool for understanding the evolution of magnetism through phase transitions and as a result of interactions inside of heterostructures. However, most imaging platforms, like the…

A single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for a solid-state quantum magnetometer capable of detecting single nuclear spins with prospective application to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at the nanoscale.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Daiki Misonou , Kento Sasaki , Shuntaro Ishizu , Yasuaki Monnai , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

Spin defects in solids offer promising platforms for quantum sensing and memory due to their long coherence times and optical addressability. Here, we integrate a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond with scanning probe microscopy…

We excite the gyrotropic mode of a magnetic vortex and observe the resulting effect on the spin state of a nearby nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond. Thin permalloy disks fabricated on a diamond sample are magnetized in a vortex state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jeremy Trimble , Brian Gould , F. Joseph Heremans , Shulei Zhang , David D. Awschalom , Jesse Berezovsky

Magnetic resonance techniques provide a powerful tool for controlling spin systems, with applications ranging from quantum information processing to medical imaging. Nevertheless, the behavior of a spin system under strong excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lilian Childress , Jean McIntyre

We demonstrate $4\pi$-steradian vector magnetic field sensing using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond coupled to a microwave (MW) cavity. The MW cavity enhances the spin-photon coupling which enables…

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond have recently been established as effective sensors of the magnetization dynamics in vicinal ferromagnetic materials. We demonstrate sub-100 nm placement accuracy of nitrogen-vacancy-containing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Jeffrey Rable , Benjamin Piazza , Jyotirmay Dwivedi , Nitin Samarth

Diamond has been extensively investigated recently due to a wide range of potential applications of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect centers existing in a diamond lattice. The applications include magnetometry and quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Viktor Stepanov , Susumu Takahashi

Coherent control of individual molecular spins in nano-devices is a pivotal prerequisite for fulfilling the potential promised by molecular spintronics. By applying electric field pulses during time-resolved electron spin resonance…

Relaxometry schemes employing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds are essential in biology and physics to detect a reduction of the color centers' characteristic spin relaxation ($T_1$) time caused by, e.g., paramagnetic molecules in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Isabel Cardoso Barbosa , Jonas Gutsche , Artur Widera

Interacting magnetic nanoobjects constitute one key component for many proposed spintronic devices, from microwave nano-oscillators to magnetic memory elements. For this reason, the mechanism of this interaction and its dependence with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. P. Sinnecker , H. Vigo-Cotrina , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , A. P. Guimarães

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are appealing nano-scale quantum sensors for temperature, strain, electric fields and, most notably, for magnetic fields. However, the cryogenic temperatures required for low-noise single-shot…

We report a systematic study of the hyperfine interaction between the electron spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond and nearby $^{13}$C nuclear spins, by using pulsed electron spin resonance spectroscopy. We isolate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Dréau , J. -R. Maze , M. Lesik , J. -F. Roch , V. Jacques