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Two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the major tools for analysing the chemical structure of organic molecules and proteins. Despite its power, this technique requires long measurement times, which,…

Diamond-based quantum sensors have enabled high-resolution NMR spectroscopy at the microscale in scenarios where fast molecular motion averages out dipolar interactions among target nuclei. However, in samples with low-diffusion, ubiquitous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Carlos Munuera-Javaloy , Ander Tobalina , Jorge Casanova

Quantum sensors have recently achieved to detect the magnetic moment of few or single nuclear spins and measure their magnetic resonance (NMR) signal. However, the spectral resolution, a key feature of NMR, has been limited by relaxation of…

Precision measurements based on optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance offer exquisite sensitivity to absolute shifts in spin transition frequencies, with potential applications in fundamental physics experiments and inertial…

We experimentally demonstrate the use of a single electronic spin to measure the quantum dynamics of distant individual nuclear spins from within a surrounding spin bath. Our technique exploits coherent control of the electron spin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shimon Kolkowitz , Quirin P. Unterreithmeier , Steven D. Bennett , Mikhail D. Lukin

Optically addressable spin defects are excellent candidate platform for quantum sensing and quantum network. Nuclear spins coupled to color centers naturally enable long lived quantum memories and local qubits registers. To fully leverage…

Quantum sensors leverage matter's quantum properties to enable measurements with unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution. Among these sensors, those utilizing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer the distinct advantage of…

Mechanical resonators operating in the megahertz range have become a versatile platform for fundamental and applied quantum research. Their exceptional properties, such as low mass and high quality factor, make them also appealing for force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Diego A. Visani , Letizia Catalini , Christian L. Degen , Alexander Eichler , Javier del Pino

We report on a nanoscale quantum-sensing protocol which tracks a free precession of a single nuclear spin and is capable of estimating an azimuthal angle---a parameter which standard multipulse protocols cannot determine---of the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Kento Sasaki , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

We present a new method for high-resolution nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (nano-MRI) that combines the high spin sensitivity of nanowire-based magnetic resonance detection with high spectral resolution nuclear magnetic resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 William Rose , Holger Haas , Angela Q. Chen , Nari Jeon , Lincoln J. Lauhon , David G. Cory , Raffi Budakian

Quantum sensors based on solid-state spins provide tremendous opportunities in a wide range of fields from basic physics and chemistry to biomedical imaging. However, integrating them into a scanning probe microscope to enable practical,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Jean-Philippe Tetienne , Alain Lombard , David A. Simpson , Cameron Ritchie , Jianing Lu , Paul Mulvaney , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Nuclear spins in solids offer a promising avenue for developing scalable quantum hardware. Leveraging nearby single-color centers, these spins can be efficiently addressed at the single-site level through spin resonance. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Majid Zahedian , Vadim Vorobyov , Jörg Wrachtrup

Identifying weakly coupled nuclear spins around single electron spins is a key step of implementing quantum information processing using coupled electron-nuclei spin systems or sensing like single spin nuclear magnetic resonance detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Nan Zhao , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ren-Bao Liu

Quantum sensors have attracted broad interest in the quest towards sub-micronscale NMR spectroscopy. Such sensors predominantly operate at low magnetic fields. Instead, however, for high resolution spectroscopy, the high-field regime is…

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 present theoretical proposals for two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy protocols based on Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are strongly coupled to the target nuclei. Continuous microwave and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Matthias Kost , Jianming Cai , Martin B. Plenio

We experimentally demonstrate an approach to scale up quantum devices by harnessing spin defects in the environment of a quantum probe. We follow this approach to identify, locate, and control two electron-nuclear spin defects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Alexandre Cooper , Won Kyu Calvin Sun , Jean-Christophe Jaskula , Paola Cappellaro

We experimentally isolate, characterize and coherently control up to six individual nuclear spins that are weakly coupled to an electron spin in diamond. Our method employs multi-pulse sequences on the electron spin that resonantly amplify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. H. Taminiau , J. J. T. Wagenaar , T. van der Sar , F. Jelezko , V. V. Dobrovitski , R. Hanson

We demonstrate a method of magnetic resonance imaging with single nuclear-spin sensitivity under ambient conditions. It employs a network of isolated electronic-spin quantum bits (qubits) that act as quantum reporters on the surface of high…

The sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) depends strongly on nuclear spin polarisation and, motivated by this observation, dynamical nuclear spin polarisation has recently been applied to enhance MRI protocols (Kurhanewicz, J.,…