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Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have precipitated profound advances in microwave detection, manifesting themselves both in spatial resolution and sensitivity. However, typical methods based on Rabi oscillations are subject to…

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The application of imaging techniques based on ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) sensors in diamond to characterise electrical devices has been proposed, but the compatibility of NV sensing with operational gated devices remains largely…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading modality for magnetic sensing and imaging under ambient conditions. However, these sensors suffer from degraded performance due to paramagnetic impurities and regions of stress in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Connor Roncaioli , Connor Hart , Ronald Walsworth , Donald P. Fahey

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

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers have considerable promise as high sensitivity magnetometers, however are commonly limited by inefficient collection and low contrasts. Laser threshold magnetometry (LTM) enables efficient collection and high…

We report on the development of a microfabricated atomic magnetic gradiometer based on optical spectroscopy of alkali atoms in the vapor phase. The gradiometer, which operates in the spin-exchange relaxation free regime, has a length of 60…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-14 Dong Sheng , Abigail R. Perry , Sean P. Krzyzewski , Shawn Geller , John Kitching , Svenja Knappe

We report a cavity-enabled solid-state magnetometer based on an NV ensemble coupled with a dielectric cavity, achieving 12 pT/$\sqrt{\rm{Hz}}$ sensitivity and a nearly threefold gain from multispectral features. The features originate from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Himanshu Kumar , Rahul Gupta , Saikat Ghosh , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Kasturi Saha

Magnetic response measurements in the presence of AC drive fields provide critical insight into the properties of magnetic and conductive materials, such as phase transitions in two-dimensional van der Waals magnets, the heating efficiency…

We introduce a double quantum (DQ) 4-Ramsey measurement protocol that enables wide-field magnetic imaging using nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, with enhanced homogeneity of the magnetic sensitivity relative to conventional single…

We report a systematic study of the magnetic field sensitivity of a magnetic sensor based on a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond, by using continuous optically detected electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. We first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Dréau , M. Lesik , L. Rondin , P. Spinicelli , O. Arcizet , J. -F. Roch , V. Jacques

The sensing of magnetic fields has important applications in medicine, particularly to the sensing of signals in the heart and brain. The fields associated with biomagnetism are exceptionally weak, being many orders of magnitude smaller…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Matthew W. Dale , Gavin W. Morley

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

Vector magnetometers based on the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are being developed for applications such as navigation and geomagnetism. However, at low magnetic fields, such as that on…

Recently there have been several theoretical and experimental studies of the prospects for magnetic field sensors based on crystal defects, especially nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond. Such systems could potentially be incorporated…

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Nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamond offer a microwave-free, noninvasive platform for probing superconductors via near zero-field cross-relaxation magnetometry. We demonstrate this by depositing nanodiamonds on YBCO thin films to measure…

Arrays of NV centers in the diamond have the potential in the fields of chip-scale quantum information processing and nanoscale quantum sensing. However, determining their orientations one by one is resource intensive and time consuming.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Xuerui Song , Fupan Feng , Chunxiao Cai , Guanzhong Wang , Wei Zhu , Wenting Diao , Chongdi Duan

Magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers has so far been measured via emission of light from NV centers or via absorption at the singlet transition at 1042 nm. Here, we demonstrate a phenomenon of broadband optical absorption by the…

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…

Engineering a layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers on the tip of a diamond anvil creates a multipurpose quantum sensors array for high pressure measurements, especially for probing magnetic and superconducting properties of materials.…

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