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The ability to process and store information on surrounding nuclear spins is a major requirement for group-IV color center-based repeater nodes. We demonstrate coherent control of a ${}^{13}$C nuclear spin strongly coupled to a negatively…

Hybrid quantum registers, such as electron-nuclear spin systems, have emerged as promising hardware for implementing quantum information and computing protocols in scalable systems. Nevertheless, the coherent control of such systems still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Swathi S. Hegde , Jingfu Zhang , Dieter Suter

Spin ensembles are central to quantum science, from frequency standards and fundamental physics searches to magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum sensing. Their performance is ultimately constrained by spin projection noise, yet…

Using a conventional Hall-bar geometry with a micro-metal strip on top of the surface, we demonstrate an electrical coherent control of nuclear spins in an AlGaAs/GaAs semiconductor heterostructure. A breakdown of integer quantum Hall (QH)…

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Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with solid-state spin sensors is a promising pathway for the detection of nuclear spins at the micro- and nanoscale. Although many nanoscale experiments rely on a single sensor spin for the detection…

The polarisation dynamics of nuclear spins weakly coupled to an NV center is highly sensitive to the parameters of the microwave control and the nuclear Larmor frequency. What is commonly regarded as a challenge, we propose here as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Q. Chen , Z. -Y. Wang , B. Tratzmiller , I. Schwartz , M. B. Plenio

Quantum networks offer a way to overcome the size and complexity limitations of single quantum devices by linking multiple nodes into a scalable architecture. Group-IV color centers in diamond, paired with long-lived nuclear spins, have…

We present experimental observations and a study of quantum dynamics of strongly interacting electronic spins, at room temperature in the solid state. In a diamond substrate, a single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center coherently interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Emma L. Rosenfeld , Linh M. Pham , Mikhail D. Lukin , Ronald L. Walsworth

The active manipulation of nuclear spins with radio-frequency (RF) coils is at the heart of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and spin-based quantum devices. Here, we present a microcoil transmitter system designed to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 K. Herb , J. Zopes , K. S. Cujia , C. L. Degen

After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond have been proposed as a non-invasive platform to achieve hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins in molecular samples over macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 J. -P. Tetienne , L. T. Hall , A. J. Healey , G. A. L. White , M. -A. Sani , F. Separovic , L. C. L. Hollenberg

Recent advances in the engineering of diamond surfaces make it possible to stabilize the charge state of 7-30 nanometers deep nitrogen-vacancy (NV) quantum sensors in diamond and to remove the charge noise at the surface principally.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Anton Pershin , András Tárkányi , Vladimir Verkhovlyuk , Viktor Ivády , Adam Gali

Coherent coupling between single quantum objects is at the heart of modern quantum physics. When coupling is strong enough to prevail over decoherence, it can be used for the engineering of correlated quantum states. Especially for…

The detection of a nuclear spin in an individual molecule represents a key challenge in physics and biology whose solution has been pursued for many years. The small magnetic moment of a single nucleus and the unavoidable environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jianming Cai , Fedor Jelezko , Martin B. Plenio , Alex Retzker

Nanodiamonds containing nitrogen vacancy (NV-) centers show promise for a number of emerging applications including targeted in vivo imaging and generating nuclear spin hyperpolarization for enhanced NMR spectroscopy and imaging. Here, we…

The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

Due to their long coherence times, nuclear spins have gained considerable attention as physical qubits. Two-qubit gates between nuclear spins of distinct resonance frequencies can be mediated by electron spins, usually employing a sequence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Benedikt Tratzmiller , Jan F. Haase , Zhenyu Wang , Martin B. Plenio

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

We report on Fourier spectroscopy experiments performed with near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond chip. By detecting the free precession of nuclear spins rather than applying a multipulse quantum sensing protocol, we are able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 J. M. Boss , K. Chang , J. Armijo , K. Cujia , T. Rosskopf , J. R. Maze , C. L. Degen

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

Nuclear spins and paramagnetic centers in a solid randomly group to form clusters featuring nearly-degenerate, hybrid states whose dynamics are central to processes involving nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and diffusion. Their…