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The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for quantum sensing technologies. Here, we present a fully integrated and mechanically robust fiber-based endoscopic sensor with a tip diameter of $1.25 \mathrm{mm}$. On its…

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…

Quantum technologies have seen a rapid developmental surge over the last couple of years. Though often overshadowed by quantum computation, quantum sensors show tremendous potential for widespread applications in chemistry and biology. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Robin D. Allert , Karl D. Briegel , Dominik B. Bucher

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,…

Scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center electrometry has shown potential for quantitative quantum imaging of electric fields at the nanoscale. However, achieving nanoscale spatial resolution remains a challenge since employing gradiometry to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhi Cheng , Zhiwei Yu , Mengqi Wang , Lingfeng Yang , Zihao Cui , Ya Wang , Pengfei Wang

Magnetic sensing technology has found widespread application in industries as diverse as transportation, medicine, and resource exploration. Such use cases often require highly sensitive instruments to measure the extremely small magnetic…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond work as a quantum electrometer. Using an ensemble state of NV centers, we propose vector electrometry and demonstrate measurements in a diamond electronic device. A transverse electric field applied…

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

Characterizing the local internal environment surrounding solid-state spin defects is crucial to harnessing them as nanoscale sensors of external fields. This is especially germane to the case of defect ensembles which can exhibit a complex…

We demonstrate a spin-based, all-dielectric electrometer based on an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^-$) defects in diamond. An applied electric field causes energy level shifts symmetrically away from the NV$^-$'s degenerate triplet…

The long-lived electronic spin of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum sensor for detecting nanoscopic magnetic and electric fields in a variety of experimental conditions. Nevertheless, an outstanding…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond has demonstrated great promise in a wide range of quantum sensing. Recently, there have been a series of proposals and experiments using NV centers to detect spin noise of quantum materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Jacob Henshaw , Pauli Kehayias , Luca Basso , Michael Jaris , Rong Cong , Michael Titze , Tzu-Ming Lu , Michael P. Lilly , Andrew M. Mounce

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be used for nanoscale sensing with atomic resolution and sensitivity; however, it has been observed that their properties degrade as they approach the diamond surface. Here we report that in…

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

We demonstrate a method of imaging spatially varying magnetic fields using a thin layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers at the surface of a diamond chip. Fluorescence emitted by the two-dimensional NV ensemble is detected by a CCD array,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 L. M. Pham , D. Le Sage , P. L. Stanwix , T. K. Yeung , D. Glenn , A. Trifonov , P. Cappellaro , P. R. Hemmer , M. D. Lukin , H. Park , A. Yacoby , R. L. Walsworth

Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising for nano-magnetometry for they can be placed proximate to targets. To study the intrinsic magnetic properties, zero-field magnetometry is desirable. However, for shallow NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ning Wang , Chu-Feng Liu , Jing-Wei Fan , Xi Feng , Weng-Hang Leong , Amit Finkler , Andrej Denisenko , Jörg Wrachtrup , Quan Li , Ren-Bao Liu

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond has realized new frontiers in quantum technology. Here, the center's optical and spin resonances are observed under hydrostatic pressures up to 60 GPa. Our observations…

Magnetic field sensors that exploit quantum effects have shown that they can outperform classical sensors in terms of sensitivity enabling a range of novel applications in future, such as a brain machine interface. Negatively charged…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds have emerged as a promising quantum sensing platform for biomedical imaging applications, yet random orientations of individual particles present significant challenges in large-scale sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yizhou Wang , Haochen Shen , Zhongyuan Liu , Yue Yu , Shengwang Du , Chong Zu , Chuanwei Zhang

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a versatile color center used for magnetometry, quantum computing, and quantum communications. In this article, using a single laser beam as a pump and probe, we measure the spin states of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Reza Kashtiban , Gavin W. Morley , Mark E. Newton , A T M Anishur Rahman