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Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond are among the leading solid state quantum platforms, offering exceptional spatial resolution and sensitivity for applications such as magnetic field sensing, thermometry, and bioimaging. However, in high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Florian Boehm , Yan Liu , Chengliang Yue , Xianqi Dong , Huaxue Zhou , Dong Wu , E Wu , Renfu Yang

Currently, the primary applications of fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) are in the area of biosensing, by using photoluminescence or spin properties of colour centres, mainly represented by the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) point defect. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jeroen Prooth , Michael Petrov , Alevtina Shmakova , Michal Gulka , Petr Cigler , Jan D'Haen , Hans-Gerd Boyen , Milos Nesladek

After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond have been proposed as a non-invasive platform to achieve hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins in molecular samples over macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 J. -P. Tetienne , L. T. Hall , A. J. Healey , G. A. L. White , M. -A. Sani , F. Separovic , L. C. L. Hollenberg

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

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have been demonstrated as useful magnetic sensors, in particular for measuring spin fluctuations, achieving high sensitivity and spatial resolution. These abilities can be used to explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Yoav Ninio , Nir Waiskopf , Idan Meirzada , Yoav Romach , Galya Haim , Shira Yochelis , Uri Banin , Nir Bar-Gill

Nanodiamonds containing negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centres (${\text{NV}}^{-}$) have applications as localized sensors in biological material and have been proposed as a platform to probe the macroscopic limits of spatial…

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

Sensors based on single spins can enable magnetic field detection with very high sensitivity and spatial resolution. Previous work has concentrated on sensing of a constant magnetic field or a periodic signal. Here, we instead investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Cristian Bonato , Dominic W. Berry

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used in recent years for a wide range of applications, from nano-scale NMR to quantum computation. These applications depend strongly on the efficient readout of the NV center's spin state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Idan Meirzada , Sigal A. Wolf , Alex Naiman , Uriel Levy , Nir Bar-Gill

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

Correlated-electron systems support a wealth of magnetic excitations, ranging from conventional spin waves to exotic fractional excitations in low-dimensional or geometrically-frustrated spin systems. Probing such excitations on nanometre…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Toeno van der Sar , Francesco Casola , Ronald Walsworth , Amir Yacoby

Despite the considerable interest for antiferromagnets which appeared with the perspective of using them for spintronics, their experimental study, including the imaging of antiferromagnetic textures, remains a challenge. To address this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Aurore Finco , Vincent Jacques

We propose a novel quantum sensing protocol that leverages the dynamical response of physical observables to quenches in quantum systems. Specifically, we use the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond to realize both scalar and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Wenkui Ding , Xingyu Zhang , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

Developing robust microwave-field sensors is both fundamentally and practically important with a wide range of applications from astronomy to communication engineering. The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an attractive candidate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Zhecheng Wang , Fei Kong , Pengju Zhao , Zhehuang Huang , Pei Yu , Ya Wang , Fazhan Shi , Jiangfeng Du

Spin defects in solids, such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, have emerged as a key tool for detecting nuclear spins at the nanoscale. While active nuclear spin control via radio-frequency (RF) irradiation is often…

We propose and demonstrate first steps towards schemes where the librational mode of levitating ferromagnets is strongly coupled to the electronic spin of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Experimentally, we levitate ferromagnets in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Huillery , T. Delord , L. Nicolas , M. Van Den Bossche , M. Perdriat , G. Hétet

Magnetoacoustic systems offer promising platforms for next-generation sensors and computing applications, but understanding their nonlinear dynamics remains challenging. Here, we use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to spatially map…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 N. Beaver , B. Luo , S-W. Chiu , D. A. Bas , P. J. Shah , A. Franson , M. S. Wolf , M. R. Page , M. J. Newburger , L. Caretta , N. X. Sun , P. Stevenson

We investigate the spin dynamics of a Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center contained in an individual diamond nanocrystal in the presence of continuous microwave excitation. Upon periodic reversal of the microwave phase, we observe a train of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Abdelghani Laraoui , Carlos A. Meriles

Spin-lattice relaxation within the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center's electronic ground-state spin triplet limits its coherence times, and thereby impacts its performance in quantum applications. We report measurements of the relaxation rates…

The isolated electronic spin system of the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centre in diamond offers unique possibilities to be employed as a nanoscale sensor for detection and imaging of weak magnetic fields. Magnetic imaging with nanometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 L. Rondin , J. -P. Tetienne , T. Hingant , J. -F. Roch , P. Maletinsky , V. Jacques