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Single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are widely used as nanoscale sensors for magnetic and electric fields, strain and temperature. Nanoscale magnetometry using NV centers allows for example to quantitatively measure local magnetic fields…

We propose a method for the estimation of the initial polarization of spinful nuclei of the 13 C isotope in diamond via a measurement of the evolution of the coherence of an NV center spin qubit. Existing polarization measurement methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Mateusz Kuniej , Katarzyna Roszak

Energy levels of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond were investigated using optically detected magnetic-resonance spectroscopy near the electronic ground-state level anticrossing (GSLAC) at an axial magnetic field around 102.4~mT in…

Understanding the profile of a qubit's wavefunction is key to its quantum applications. Unlike conducting systems, where a scanning tunneling microscope can be used to probe the electron distribution, there is no direct method for…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have emerged as highly versatile optical emitters that exhibit room temperature spin properties. These characteristics make NV centers ideal for magnetometry, which plays an important role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kangmook Lim , Chad Ropp , Benjamin Shapiro , Jacob M. Taylor , Edo Waks

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as valuable tools for sensing and polarizing spins. Motivated by potential applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine, we show that NV-based sensors are capable of detecting single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 M. Bruderer , P. Fernández-Acebal , R. Aurich , M. B. Plenio

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging with nanometer resolution requires new detection techniques with sensitivity well beyond the capability of conventional inductive detection. Here, we demonstrate two dimensional imaging of $^1$H NMR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Rugar , H. J. Mamin , M. H. Sherwood , M. Kim , C. T. Rettner , K. Ohno , D. D. Awschalom

We demonstrate a wide-band all-optical method of nanoscale magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy under ambient conditions. Our method relies on cross-relaxation between a probe spin, the electronic spin of a nitrogen-vacancy centre in…

We report a versatile method to efficiently polarize single nuclear spins in diamond, which is based on optical pumping of a single NV color center and mediated by a level-anti crossing in its excited state. A nuclear spin polarization…

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

Optically accessible spin-active nanomaterials are promising as quantum nanosensors for probing biological samples. However, achieving bioimaging-level brightness and high-quality spin properties for these materials is challenging and…

We report on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) materials produced by detonation technique. Analysis of the 13C and 1H NMR spectra, spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation times in purified UNCD…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Panich , A. I. Shames , H. -M. Vieth , E. Osawa , M. Takahashi , A. Ya. Vul

Nuclear spin hyperpolarization provides a promising route to overcome the challenges imposed by the limited sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. Here we demonstrate that dissolution of spin-polarized pentacene-doped naphthalene…

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

Scanning-probe and wide-field magnetic microscopes based on Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have enabled remarkable advances in the study of biology and materials, but each method has drawbacks. Here, we implement an alternative…

Solid state spins in diamond, in particular negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV), are leading contenders in the field of quantum sensing. While addressing of single NVs offers nanoscale spatial resolution, many implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yuchun Zhu , Elena Losero , Christophe Galland , Valentin Goblot

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an increasingly popular quantum sensor for microscopy of electrical current, magnetization, and spins. However, efficient NV-sample integration with a robust, high-quality interface remains an…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is of high importance in quantum information processing applications which relies on the efficient optical polarization of its electron spin. However, the full optical spinpolarization process, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Gergő Thiering , Adam Gali

Advances in sensing devices that utilize nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles in diamond are driving progress in microscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Utilizing quantum sensing techniques in the high-field regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ainitze Biteri-Uribarren , Ana Martin , Jorge Casanova

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhances nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals by transferring electron spin polarization to nuclei. As DNP requires microwave magnetic fields B1 strong enough to saturate electron spins, microwave…