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Sensing of signals from biological processes, such as action potential propagation in nerves, are essential for clinical diagnosis and basic understanding of physiology. Sensing can be performed electrically by placing sensor probes near or…

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

With the advent of quantum technology, nitrogen vacancy ($NV$) centers in diamond turn out to be a frontier which provides an efficient platform for quantum computation, communication and sensing applications. Due to the coupled spin-charge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 T. Chakraborty , R. Bhattacharya , V. S. Anjusha , M. Nesladek , D. Suter , T. S. Mahesh

We demonstrate $4\pi$-steradian vector magnetic field sensing using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond coupled to a microwave (MW) cavity. The MW cavity enhances the spin-photon coupling which enables…

Quantum diamond microscopy (QDM), which employs nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles, is a promising approach to quantitatively imaging magnetic fields with both high resolution that approaches the diffraction limit and a wide field of…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond enable quantitative magnetic imaging, yet practical implementations must balance spatial resolution against acquisition time (and thus per-pixel sensitivity). Single-NV scanning magnetometry achieves…

We report the possibility to simultaneously perform wide-field nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamond magnetic microscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements at high pressure. NV color centers are created on the culet of a diamond…

We propose an original analog method to perform instantaneous and quantitative spectral analysis of microwave signals. An ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers held in a diamond plate is pumped by a 532 nm laser. Its photoluminescence…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Chipaux , L. Toraille , C. Larat , L. Morvan , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , T. Debuisschert

Current density distributions in active integrated circuits (ICs) result in patterns of magnetic fields that contain structural and functional information about the IC. Magnetic fields pass through standard materials used by the…

Sensing of a few unpaired electron spins, such as metal ions and radicals, is a useful but difficult task in nanoscale physics, biology, and chemistry. Single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer high sensitivity and spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 F. Gorrini , R. Giri , C. E. Avalos , S. Tambalo , S. Mannucci , L. Basso , N. Bazzanella , C. Dorigoni , M. Cazzanelli , P. Marzola , A. Miotello , A. Bifone

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

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

Nitrogen vacancy centres (NVC) in diamond have been widely used for near-dc magnetometry. The intrinsic properties of diamonds make them potential candidates for tokamak fusion power diagnostics, where radiation-hard magnetometers will be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 S. M. Graham , C. J. Stephen , A. J. Newman , A. M. Edmonds , M. L. Markham , G. W. Morley

Widefield quantum diamond microscopy (WQDM) based on Kohler-illumination has been widely adopted in the field of quantum sensing, however, practical applications are still limited by issues such as unavoidable photodamage and unsatisfied…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-28 Feng Xu , Jialong Chen , Yong Hou , Juan Cheng , Tony KC Hui , Shih-Chi Chen , Zhiqin Chu

The core issue for the implementation of the diamond NV centre qubits technology is the sensitive readout of NV spin state. We have recently demonstrated the photoelectric detection of NV magnetic resonances (PDMR), anticipated to be faster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 E. Bourgeois , E. Londero , K. Buczak , Y. Balasubramaniam , G. Wachter , J. Stursa , K. Dobes , F. Aumayr , M. Trupke , A. Gali , M. Nesladek

We perform pulsed optically detected electron spin resonance to measure the DC magnetic field sensitivity and electronic spin coherence time T_2 of an ensemble of near-surface, high-density nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers engineered to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Kento Sasaki , Ed E. Kleinsasser , Zhouyang Zhu , Wen-Di Li , Hideyuki Watanabe , Kai-Mei C. Fu , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

We demonstrate a vector magnetometer that simultaneously measures all Cartesian components of a dynamic magnetic field using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond. Optical NV-diamond measurements provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Jennifer M. Schloss , John F. Barry , Matthew J. Turner , Ronald L. Walsworth

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer a sensitive method of measuring the spatially localized dynamics of magnetization and associated spin textures in ferromagnetic materials. We use NV centers in a deterministically positioned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Jeffrey Rable , Jyotirmay Dwivedi , Nitin Samarth

The electrical conductivity of a material can feature subtle, nontrivial, and spatially-varying signatures with critical insight into the material's underlying physics. Here we demonstrate a conductivity imaging technique based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Amila Ariyaratne , Dolev Bluvstein , Bryan A. Myers , Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Quantum systems composed of solid-state electronic spins can be sensitive detectors of narrowband magnetic fields. A prominent example is the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, which has been employed for magnetic spectroscopy with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Zechuan Yin , Justin J. Welter , Connor A. Hart , Paul V. Petruzzi , Ronald L. Walsworth