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The unpolarized spin environment surrounding a central spin qubit is typically considered as an incoherent source of dephasing, however, precise characterization and control of the spin bath can yield a resource for storing and sensing with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 R. M. Goldblatt , A. M. Martin , A. A. Wood

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…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond was found to be a powerful tool for various sensing applications. The main work horse of this center so far has been optically detected electron resonance. Utilization of the nuclear spin has the…

Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamond is becoming an established tool for studying nanoscale physics in condensed matter systems. However, the optical access required for NV spin readout remains an important hurdle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Yufan Li , Fabian A. Gerritsma , Samer Kurdi , Nina Codreanu , Simon Gröblacher , Ronald Hanson , Richard Norte , Toeno van der Sar

Recent advancements in quantum technology have highlighted the potential of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. However, fully realizing this potential requires addressing challenges related to the size, complexity, and cost of…

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a versatile color center used for magnetometry, quantum computing, and quantum communications. In this article, using a single laser beam as a pump and probe, we measure the spin states of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Reza Kashtiban , Gavin W. Morley , Mark E. Newton , A T M Anishur Rahman

Precise coherent control of the individual electronic spins associated with atom-like impurities in the solid state is essential for applications in quantum information processing and quantum metrology. We demonstrate all-optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Yiwen Chu , Matthew Markham , Daniel J. Twitchen , Mikhail D. Lukin

A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising sensor for nanoscale magnetic sensing. Here we report electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy using a single NV center in diamond. First, using a 230 GHz ESR spectrometer, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Chathuranga Abeywardana , Viktor Stepanov , Franklin H. Cho , Susumu Takahashi

Nuclear spins in the proximity of electronic spin defects in solids are promising platforms for quantum information processing due to their ability to preserve quantum states for a remarkably long time. Here we report a comprehensive study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Mykyta Onizhuk , Giulia Galli

Diamond-based quantum sensors have enabled high-resolution NMR spectroscopy at the microscale in scenarios where fast molecular motion averages out dipolar interactions among target nuclei. However, in samples with low-diffusion, ubiquitous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Carlos Munuera-Javaloy , Ander Tobalina , Jorge Casanova

Single NV centers in diamond coupled by hyperfine interaction to neighboring 13C nuclear spins are now widely used in the emerging quantum technologies as elements of quantum memory adjusted to NV center electron spin qubit. For nuclear…

A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a diamond enables the access to an electron spin, which is expected to present highly sensitive quantum sensors. Although exploiting a nitrogen nuclear spin improves the sensitivity, manipulating it using a…

We introduce a method for the measurement of the lower bound on the initial polarization of spinful nuclei in a diamond by following the coherence evolution of an NV center spin qubit after a simple scheme is operated on the qubit to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mateusz Kuniej , Katarzyna Roszak

Nuclear spins in certain solids couple weakly to their environment, making them attractive candidates for quantum information processing and inertial sensing. When coupled to the spin of an optically-active electron, nuclear spins can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Alexander A. Wood , Russell M. Goldblatt , Robert E. Scholten , Andy M. Martin

The interaction of solid-state electronic spins with deformations of their host crystal is an important ingredient in many experiments realizing quantum information processing schemes. Here, we theoretically characterize that interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Péter Udvarhelyi , Vladyslav O. Shkolnikov , Adam Gali , Guido Burkard , András Pályi

We use nominally forbidden electron-nuclear spin transitions in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to demonstrate coherent manipulation of a nuclear spin ensemble using microwave fields at room temperature. We show that employing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 P. Huillery , J. Leibold , T. Delord , L. Nicolas , J. Achard , A. Tallaire , G. Hétet

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…

Single-molecule nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a crown-jewel challenge in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and has important applications in chemical analysis and in quantum computing. Recently, it becomes possible to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fazhan Shi , Xi Kong , Pengfei Wang , Fei Kong , Nan Zhao , Ren-Bao Liu , Jiangfeng Du

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 (NV) centers in diamond are extensively utilized as quantum sensors for imaging fields at the nanoscale. The ultra-high sensitivity of NV magnetometers has enabled the detection and spectroscopy of individual electron…