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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…

Characterization of the molecular properties of surfaces under ambient or chemically reactive conditions is a fundamental scientific challenge. Moreover, many traditional analytical techniques used for probing surfaces often lack dynamic or…

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…

A broad effort is underway to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance through the use of dynamic nuclear polarization. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer an appealing platform because these paramagnetic defects can…

We present a new magnetometry method integrating an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond with an extended dynamic range for monitoring the fast changing magnetic-field. The NV-center spin resonance frequency…

Solid state defects such as nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been utilized for NMR sensing at ambient temperatures for samples at the nano-scale and up to the micro-scale. Similar to standard NMR, NV-sensitivities can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Oliver T. Whaites , Jaime García Oliván , Jorge Casanova

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

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has enabled studies of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance with high sensitivity in small sample volumes. Most NV-detected NMR (NV-NMR) experiments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yuhang Ren , Cooper Selco , Dylan Kawashiri , Michael Coumans , Benjamin Fortman , Louis S. Bouchard , Karoly Holczer , Susumu Takahashi

Conventional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy relies on acquiring signal from a macroscopic ensemble of molecules to gain information about molecular structure and dynamics. Transferring this technique to nanoscale sample sizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Jeffrey Holzgrafe , Qiushi Gu , Jan Beitner , Dhiren Kara , Helena S. Knowles , Mete Atatüre

Paramagnetic magnetic resonance, a powerful technique for characterizing and identifying chemical targets, is increasingly used for imaging; however, low spin polarization at room temperature and moderate magnetic fields poses challenges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 C. M. Purser , V. P. Bhallamudi , C. S. Wolfe , H. Yusuf , B. A. McCullian , C. Jayaprakash , M. E. Flatté , P. C. Hammel

We investigate nuclear spin hyperpolarization from nitrogen vacancy centers in isotopically enriched diamonds with $^{13}$C concentrations up to 100%. $^{13}$C enrichment leads to hyperfine structure of the nitrogen vacancy electron spin…

Sensitive nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of target spins using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond will require a quantitative understanding of dominant noise at the surface. We probe this noise by applying dynamical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Bryan A. Myers , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kenichi Ohno , Ananda Das , David D. Awschalom , Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Recent advances in the engineering of diamond surfaces make it possible to stabilize the charge state of 7-30 nanometers deep nitrogen-vacancy (NV) quantum sensors in diamond and to remove the charge noise at the surface principally.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Anton Pershin , András Tárkányi , Vladimir Verkhovlyuk , Viktor Ivády , Adam Gali

Substitutional nitrogen atoms in a diamond crystal (P1 centers) are, on one hand, a resource for creation of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, that have been widely employed as nanoscale quantum sensors. On the other hand, P1's electron spin…

Low thermal polarization of nuclear spins is a primary sensitivity limitation for nuclear magnetic resonance. Here we demonstrate optically pumped (microwave-free) nuclear spin polarization of $^{13}\mathrm{C}$ and $^{15}\mathrm{N}$ in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ben L. Green , Ben G. Breeze , Gregory J. Rees , John V. Hanna , Jyh-Pin Chou , Viktor Ivády , Adam Gali , Mark E. Newton

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is supposed to be a building block for quantum computing and nanometer scale metrology at ambient conditions. Therefore, precise knowledge of its quantum states is crucial. Here, we experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 G. Waldherr , J. Beck , M. Steiner , P. Neumann , A. Gali , Th. Frauenheim , F. Jelezko , J. Wrachtrup

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy provides unparalleled access to molecular structure and dynamics but is traditionally limited by weak signal strength, requiring large sample volumes and high magnetic fields. Here, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dileep Singh , Riley W. Hooper , Christoph Findler , Utsab Banerjee , Dominik B. Bucher

We created dense ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers in diamond by neutron and electron irradiation for applications in hybrid quantum systems and magnetometry. We characterize fluorescence intensity, optical and…

Dynamic nuclear polarisation, which transfers the spin polarisation of electrons to nuclei, is routinely applied to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance; it is also critical in spintronics, particularly when spin…

Isolated nuclear spins offer a promising building block for quantum information processing systems, but their weak interactions often impede preparation, control, and detection. Hyperfine coupling to a proximal electronic spin can enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Benjamin Smeltzer , Jean McIntyre , Lilian Childress