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Among hundreds of impurities and defects in diamond, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is one of the most interesting to be used as a platform for quantum technologies and nanosensing. Traditionally, synthetic diamond is irradiated with…

Individual, luminescent point defects in solids so called color centers are atomic-sized quantum systems enabling sensing and imaging with nanoscale spatial resolution. In this overview, we introduce nanoscale sensing based on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Ettore Bernardi , Richard Nelz , Selda Sonusen , Elke Neu

A fully integrated quantum optical technology requires active quantum systems incorporated into resonant optical microstructures and inter-connected in three dimensions via photonic wires. Nitrogen vacancy-centres (NV-centres) in diamond…

Photochromism in single nitrogen-vacancy optical centers in diamond is demonstrated. Time-resolved optical spectroscopy shows that intense irradiation at 514 nm switches the nitrogen-vacancy defects to the negative form. This defect state…

Powered by the mutual developments in instrumentation, materials andtheoretical descriptions, sensing and imaging capabilities of quantum emitters insolids have significantly increased in the past two decades. Quantum emitters insolids,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Mariusz Radtke , Ettore Bernardi , Abdallah Slablab , Richard Nelz , Elke Neu

We demonstrated optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in microdiamonds inside a diamond anvil cell pressurized with nanopolycrystalline diamond (NPD) anvils. NPD exhibits high optical transparency,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Masahiro Ohkuma , Keigo Arai , Kenji Ohta , Toru Shinmei , Ryo Matsumoto , Yoshihiko Takano , Tetsuo Irifune

In the present work we report about the investigation of the conduction mechanism of sp2 carbon micro-channels buried in single crystal diamond. The structures are fabricated with a novel technique which employs a MeV focused ion-beam to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-29 P. Olivero , G. Amato , F. Bellotti , S. Borini , A. Lo Giudice , F. Picollo , E. Vittone

We introduce a focal-plane detector for advancing the energy and angular resolutions of current X-ray telescopes. The architecture integrates a metallic magnetic microcalorimeter (MMC) array of paramagnetic absorber pads with a thin layer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Ephraim Gau , Zhongyuan Liu , Henric Krawczynski , Chong Zu

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond exhibit long spin coherence times, optical initialization, and optical spin readout under ambient conditions, making them excellent quantum sensors. However, the conventional scheme for charge state…

A technique has been developed for depositing diamond crystals on the endfaces of optical fibers and capturing the fluorescence generated by optically active defects in the diamond into the fiber. This letter details the diamond growth on…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Rabeau , S. T. Huntington , A. D. Greentree , S. Prawer

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile quantum sensors with broad applications in the physical and life sciences. The concentration of neutral substitutional nitrogen ([N$_\text{s}^0$]) strongly influences…

The controlled creation of color centers in phosphorus-doped (n-type) diamond can facilitate the electronics integration of quantum photonics devices, such as single-photon sources operating upon electrical injection. Silicon vacancy (SiV)…

The negatively-charged silicon-vacancy ($\mathrm{SiV}^{-}$) center in diamond is a bright source of indistinguishable single photons and a useful resource in quantum information protocols. Until now, $\mathrm{SiV}^{-}$ centers with narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Ruffin E. Evans , Alp Sipahigil , Denis D. Sukachev , Alexander S. Zibrov , Mikhail D. Lukin

Defects creation and annihilation is a fundamental concept in device fabrication. This report studies the optical bandgap modification in MgO by MeV Ni ion irradiation-induced defect states between valance and conduction band. Ion…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-15 Sourav Bhakta , Subhadip Pradhan , Ashis K. Nandy , Pratap K. Sahoo

In this work we use fluorescence from nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond to detect and explore other paramagnetic defects in the diamond, such as P1 defects, which are commonly undetectable through optical detection of magnetic resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Nir Alfasi , Sergei Masis , Oleg Shtempluck , Eyal Buks

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in millimeter-scale diamond samples were produced by irradiation and subsequent annealing under varied conditions. The optical and spin relaxation properties of these samples were characterized using confocal…

We demonstrate quantum interference between indistinguishable photons emitted by two nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in distinct diamond samples separated by two meters. Macroscopic solid immersion lenses are used to enhance photon collection…

The recently demonstrated electroluminescence of color centers in diamond makes them one of the best candidates for room temperature single-photon sources. However, the reported emission rates are far off what can be achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Dmitry Yu. Fedyanin , Mario Agio

Group-IV color centers in diamond have garnered great interest for their potential as optically active solid-state spin qubits. Future utilization of such emitters requires the development of precise site-controlled emitter generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Alison E. Rugar , Haiyu Lu , Constantin Dory , Shuo Sun , Patrick J. McQuade , Zhi-Xun Shen , Nicholas A. Melosh , Jelena Vučković

We characterize a high-density sample of negatively charged silicon-vacancy (SiV$^-$) centers in diamond using collinear optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy. By comparing the results of complementary signal detection schemes, we…