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The nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond attracts a lot of attention in sensing applications, mainly for temperature, magnetic field, and rotation measurements. Nuclear spins of carbon-13 surrounding the nitrogen-vacancy center can be used as…

Imaging of microwave magnetic fields with nano-scale resolution has interesting applications. Specifically, detecting the orientation of the microwave fields is useful in condensed matter physics and quantum control. However, most of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Akshat Rana , Pooja Lamba , Atanu Ghosh , Siddharth Dhomkar , Rama K. Kamineni

Diamonds with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles are one of the most promising solid-state quantum platforms for various sensing applications. The combination of a long spin dephasing time ($T_2^*$) and a high NV center concentration is…

Widefield quantum microscopy based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond has emerged as a powerful technique for quantitative mapping of magnetic fields with a sub-micron resolution. However, the accuracy of the technique has not been…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is an atom-like system in the solid-state which specific spin properties can be efficiently used as a sensitive magnetic sensor. An external magnetic field induces Zeeman shifts of the NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 M. Chipaux , A. Tallaire , J. Achard , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , V. Jacques , J. -F. Roch , T. Debuisschert

Recently there have been several theoretical and experimental studies of the prospects for magnetic field sensors based on crystal defects, especially nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond. Such systems could potentially be incorporated…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-15 Marcus Schaffry , Erik M. Gauger , John J. L. Morton , Simon C. Benjamin

We demonstrate the use of two-photon excitation for observing the ground state optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds at room temperature. An ultrafast femtosecond laser at 1040 nm was used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Lam T. Nguyen , Khanh Kieu

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect center in diamond has demonstrated great capability for nanoscale magnetic sensing and imaging for both static and periodically modulated target fields. However, it remains a challenge to detect and image…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Lan Luan , Michael S. Grinolds , Sungkun Hong , Patrick Maletinsky , Ronald L. Walsworth , Amir Yacoby

We present a design to increase the amount of collected fluorescence emitted by nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond used for quantum-sensing. An improvement was measured in collected fluorescence when comparing oppositely faced…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile candidates for many quantum information processing tasks, ranging from quantum imaging and sensing through to quantum communication and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Michael Hanks , Michael Trupke , Jörg Schmiedmayer , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging with nanometer resolution requires new detection techniques with sensitivity well beyond the capability of conventional inductive detection. Here, we demonstrate two dimensional imaging of $^1$H NMR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Rugar , H. J. Mamin , M. H. Sherwood , M. Kim , C. T. Rettner , K. Ohno , D. D. Awschalom

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted considerable interest in sensing of weak magnetic fields, such as those created by biological systems. Detecting such feeble signals requires near-surface NV centers, to reduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 R. Giri , C. Dorigoni , S. Tambalo , F. Gorrini , A. Bifone

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are attractive as quantum sensors owing to their remarkable optical and spin properties under ambient conditions. Here we experimentally demonstrated a hybrid fiber-based thermometer coupled with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-29 Shao-Chun Zhang , Shen Li , Bo Du , Yang Dong , Yu Zheng , Hao-Bin Lin , Bo-Wen Zhao , Wei Zhu , Guan-Zhong Wang , Xiang-Dong Chen , Guang-Can Guo , Fang-Wen Sun

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry is a new technique for imaging spin waves in magnetic materials. It detects spin waves by their microwave magnetic stray fields, which decay evanescently on the scale of the spin-wavelength. Here, we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Brecht G. Simon , Samer Kurdi , Joris J. Carmiggelt , Michael Borst , Allard Katan , Toeno van der Sar

A wide-field magnetometer utilizing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that does not require microwaves is demonstrated. It is designed for applications where microwaves need to be avoided, such as magnetic imaging of biological or…

A vibrating wire may be used as an instrument with a variety of applications, one of which is the measurement of magnetic fields. Often, the magnetic fields are determined by measuring the amplitude of the wire vibration under the action of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Jason Gilbert , Cameron Baribeau

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has become a widely used platform for quantum sensing. The four NV axes in mono-crystalline diamond specifically allow for vector magnetometry, with magnetic-field sensitivities reaching down to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Dennis Lönard , Isabel Cardoso Barbosa , Stefan Johansson , Jonas Gutsche , Artur Widera

We report a new method to determine the orientation of individual nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a bulk diamond and use them to realize a calibration-free vector magnetometer with nanoscale resolution. Optical vortex beam is used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Bing Chen , Xianfei Hou , Feifei Ge , Xiaohan Zhang , Yunlan Ji , Hongju Li , Peng Qian , Ya Wang , Nanyang Xu , Jiangfeng Du

Magnetic sensing technology has found widespread application in industries as diverse as transportation, medicine, and resource exploration. Such use cases often require highly sensitive instruments to measure the extremely small magnetic…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are suitable sensors of high-sensitivity magnetometry which have attracted much interest in recent years. Here, we demonstrate sensitivity-enhanced ensembles magnetometry via adaptively complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Bao Chen , Bing Chen , Xinyi Zhu , Zhifei Yu , Peng Qian , Nanyang Xu