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The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond exists in different charge states with distinct photoluminescence properties, which are sensitive to the nanoscale electrochemical environment. Hence, the NV charge state is emerging as a powerful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Patrick Voorhoeve , Hiroshi Abe , Takeshi Ohshima , Qiang Sun , Anita Quigley , Rob Kapsa , Nikolai Dontschuk , Philipp Reineck

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center magnetometry is a highly promising quantum sensing technology, with early prototypes demonstrating impressive sensitivity in compact sensing heads. Yet, most existing implementations remain tied to laboratory…

A single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for a solid-state quantum magnetometer capable of detecting single nuclear spins with prospective application to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at the nanoscale.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Daiki Misonou , Kento Sasaki , Shuntaro Ishizu , Yasuaki Monnai , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

Optically-detected paramagnetic centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as a promising platform for nanoscale metrology at room temperature. Of particular interest are applications where the center is used as a probe to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Abdelghani Laraoui , Daniela Pagliero , Carlos A. Meriles

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is an atom-like system in the solid-state which specific spin properties can be efficiently used as a sensitive magnetic sensor. An external magnetic field induces Zeeman shifts of the NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 M. Chipaux , A. Tallaire , J. Achard , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , V. Jacques , J. -F. Roch , T. Debuisschert

Interacting resonators can lead to strong non-linearities but the details can be complicated to predict. In this work, we study the non-linearities introduced by two nested microcavities that interact with nitrogen vacancy centers in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 O. Gazzano , C. Becher

Detection of AC magnetic fields at the nanoscale is critical in applications ranging from fundamental physics to materials science. Isolated quantum spin defects, such as the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, can achieve the desired…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Guoqing Wang , Yi-Xiang Liu , Yuan Zhu , Paola Cappellaro

Solid-state magnetometers like the Nitrogen-Vacancy center in diamond have been of paramount importance for the development of quantum sensing with nanoscale spatial resolution. The basic protocol is a Ramsey sequence, that imprints an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Raúl Coto , Hossein T. Dinani , Ariel Norambuena , Mo Chen , Jerónimo R. Maze

Over the years, an enormous effort has been made to establish nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as easily accessible and precise magnetic field sensors. However, most of their sensing protocols rely on the application of bias…

The electronic spin of the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond forms an atomically sized, highly sensitive sensor for magnetic fields. To harness the full potential of individual NV centers for sensing with high sensitivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Patrick Appel , Elke Neu , Marc Ganzhorn , Arne Barfuss , Marietta Batzer , Micha Gratz , Andreas Tschöpe , Patrick Maletinsky

Quantum sensing using optically addressable atomic-scale defects, such as the nitrogen--vacancy (NV) center in diamond, provides new opportunities for sensitive and highly localized characterization of chemical functionality. Notably,…

Dense and shallow ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV$^-$) with good optical and spin properties play a key role in the performance enhancement of diamond-based quantum sensors. Ion implantation enables precise…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted considerable interest in sensing of weak magnetic fields, such as those created by biological systems. Detecting such feeble signals requires near-surface NV centers, to reduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 R. Giri , C. Dorigoni , S. Tambalo , F. Gorrini , A. Bifone

Recent years have seen significant growth of quantum technologies, and specifically quantum sensing, both in terms of the capabilities of advanced platforms and their applications. One of the leading platforms in this context is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Galya Haim , Stefano Martina , John Howell , Nir Bar-Gill , Filippo Caruso

We experimentally demonstrate a simple and robust optical fibers based method to achieve simultaneously efficient excitation and fluorescence collection from Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defects containing micro-crystalline diamond. We fabricate a…

We present an experimental method to perform dual-channel lock-in magnetometry of time-dependent magnetic fields using a single spin associated with a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond. We incorporate multi-pulse quantum sensing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 N. M. Nusran , M. V. Gurudev Dutt

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spin ensembles in diamond provide an advanced magnetic sensing platform, with applications in both the physical and life sciences. The development of isotopically engineered $^{15}$NV diamond offers advantages over…

Scanning probe microscopy using nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has become a versatile tool with applications in physics, chemistry, life sciences and earth and planetary sciences. However, the fabrication of diamond scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Tony X. Zhou , Rainer J. Stöhr , Amir Yacoby

Sensing techniques based on the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond have emerged as promising candidates to characterise ultra-thin and 2D materials. An outstanding challenge to this goal is isolating the contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 S. E. Lillie , D. A. Broadway , N. Dontschuk , A. Zavabeti , D. A. Simpson , T. Teraji , T. Daeneke , L. C. L. Hollenberg , J. -P. Tetienne

Magnetic imaging using color centers in diamond through both scanning and wide-field methods offers a combination of unique capabilities for studying superconductivity, for example, enabling accurate vector magnetometry at high temperature…