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We report an experimental design where the position and resonance frequency of the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) in a diamond are correlated with the room temperature. A simple model trained on the interpolated correlation data predicts both…
We probe the relaxation dynamics of the full three-level spin system of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to define a $T_{1}$ relaxation time that helps resolve the $T_{2} \leq 2T_{1}$ coherence limit of the NV's subset…
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…
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading modality for magnetic sensing and imaging under ambient conditions. However, these sensors suffer from degraded performance due to paramagnetic impurities and regions of stress in the…
The use of diamond color centers such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is increasingly enabling quantum sensing and computing applications. Novel concepts like cavity coupling and readout, laser threshold magnetometry and multi-pass…
Implantation of diamonds with helium ions becomes a common method to create hundreds-nanometers-thick near-surface layers of NV centers for high-sensitivity sensing and imaging applications. However, optimal implantation dose and annealing…
The negatively-charged nitrogen vacancy (NV$^-$) centre in diamond is a remarkable optical quantum sensor for a range of applications including, nanoscale thermometry, magnetometry, single photon generation, quantum computing, and…
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…
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…
Temperature sensing at the nanoscale is a significant experimental challenge. Here, we report an approach using dressed states to make a leading quantum sensor (the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond) selectively sensitive to…
Nitrogen Vacancy diamond nanoparticles (NVNPs) are increasingly integrated with methods for optical detection of magnetic resonance (ODMR), providing new opportunities in magnetic characterization that span the visualization of magnetic…
The charge state dynamics of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond play a key role in a wide range of applications, yet remain imperfectly understood. Using single ps-pulses and pulse pairs, we quantitatively investigate the charge…
We demonstrate three-dimensional localization of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond by combining nitrogen doping during growth with a post-growth 12C implantation technique that facilitates vacancy formation in the crystal. We…
Electron spins of diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are important quantum resources for nanoscale sensing and quantum information. Combining NV spins with levitated optomechanical resonators will provide a hybrid quantum system for…
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…
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are a promising platform for nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance sensing. Despite significant progress towards using NV centers to detect and localize nuclear spins down to the single spin level,…
We report on the observation of quantum interference of the emission from two separate nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Taking advantage of optically induced spin polarization in combination with polarization filtering, we isolate…
We investigate vibrational properties and lattice distortion of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. Using the first-principles electronic structure calculations, we show that the presence of NV center leads to…
We show that the orientation of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond can be efficiently controlled through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth on a (111)-oriented diamond substrate. More precisely, we demonstrate that spontaneously…
Understanding the limits to the spin-coherence of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is vital to realizing the full potential of this quantum system. We show that relaxation on the $|m_{s}=-1\rangle \leftrightarrow…