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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…

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…

Fluorescent nanodiamonds containing negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^-$) centers are promising for a wide range of applications, such as for sensing, as fluorescence biomarkers, or to hyperpolarize nuclear spins. NV$^-$ centers are…

We demonstrate vector magnetometry with an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond without the need for an external bias field. The anisotropy of the electric dipole moments of the NV center reduces the ambiguity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Franz Münzhuber , Johannes Kleinlein , Tobias Kiessling , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The protocols for the control and readout of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centres electron spins in diamond offer an advanced platform for quantum computation, metrology and sensing. These protocols are based on the optical readout of photons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 E. Bourgeois , A. Jarmola , M. Gulka , J. Hruby , D. Budker , M. Nesladek

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile quantum sensors with broad applications in the physical and life sciences. The concentration of neutral substitutional nitrogen ([N$_\text{s}^0$]) strongly influences…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond has demonstrated great promise in a wide range of quantum sensing. Recently, there have been a series of proposals and experiments using NV centers to detect spin noise of quantum materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Jacob Henshaw , Pauli Kehayias , Luca Basso , Michael Jaris , Rong Cong , Michael Titze , Tzu-Ming Lu , Michael P. Lilly , Andrew M. Mounce

In this work we present a compact and portable tabletop magnetometer that utilizes negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The magnetometer is operated using a dual microwave resonance detection approach in combination…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be used for nanoscale sensing with atomic resolution and sensitivity; however, it has been observed that their properties degrade as they approach the diamond surface. Here we report that in…

The photoluminescence of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond nanoparticles exhibits specific properties as compared to NV centers in bulk diamond. For instance large fluctuations of lifetime and brightness from particle to particle…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 J. -J. Greffet , J. -P. Hugonin , M. Besbes , N. D. Lai , F. Treussart , J. -F. Roch

We present a micrometer-resolution millimeter-field-of-view stress imaging method for diamonds containing a thin surface layer of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers. In this method, we reconstruct stress tensor elements over a two-dimensional…

We demonstrate a robust experimental method for determining the depth of individual shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond with $\sim1$ nm uncertainty. We use a confocal microscope to observe single NV centers and detect the…

Hands-on experimental experience with quantum systems in the undergraduate physics curriculum provides students with a deeper understanding of quantum physics and equips them for the fast-growing quantum science industry. Here we present an…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-02 David M. Toyli , Christoph D. Weis , Gregory D. Fuchs , Thomas Schenkel , David D. Awschalom

We present a procedure that makes use of group theory to analyze and predict the main properties of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. We focus on the relatively low temperatures limit where both the spin-spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jeronimo Maze , Adam Gali , Emre Togan , Yiwen Chu , Alexei Trifonov , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mikhail Lukin

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ziwei Qiu , Assaf Hamo , Uri Vool , Tony X. Zhou , Amir Yacoby

We present nanoscale NMR measurements performed with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers located down to about 2 nm from the diamond surface. NV centers were created by shallow ion implantation followed by a slow, nanometer-by-nanometer removal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 M. Loretz , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , C. L. Degen

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds have emerged as a promising quantum sensing platform for biomedical imaging applications, yet random orientations of individual particles present significant challenges in large-scale sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yizhou Wang , Haochen Shen , Zhongyuan Liu , Yue Yu , Shengwang Du , Chong Zu , Chuanwei Zhang

Megabar pressures are of crucial importance for cutting-edge studies of condensed matter physics and geophysics. With the development of diamond anvil cell, laboratory studies of high pressure have entered the megabar era for decades.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jian-Hong Dai , Yan-Xing Shang , Yong-Hong Yu , Yue Xu , Hui Yu , Fang Hong , Xiao-Hui Yu , Xin-Yu Pan , Gang-Qin Liu

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the optically detected magnetic resonance signals for ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in 13C isotopically enriched single-crystal diamond. We observe four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Jarmola , Z. Bodrog , P. Kehayias , M. Markham , J. Hall , D. J. Twitchen , V. M. Acosta , A. Gali , D. Budker