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Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable and versatile light-matter interfaces with practical application in magnetic field sensing, offering the ability to operate at room temperature and reach sensitivities below…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Arezoo Afshar , Andrew Proppe , Noah Lupu-Gladstein , Lilian Childress , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) based quantum sensors hold great potential for real-time single-cell sensing with far-reaching applications in fundamental biology and medical diagnostics. Although highly sensitive, the mapping of quantum measurements…

A dense layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers near the surface of a diamond can be interrogated in a widefield optical microscope to produce spatially resolved maps of local quantities such as magnetic field, electric field and lattice…

In-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has become an important technique to study dynamic processes at highest spatial resolution and one branch is the investigation of phenomena related with electrical currents. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Simon Hettler , Raul Arenal

Research on diamond has intensified due to its exceptional thermal, optical, and mechanical properties, making it a key material in quantum technologies and high-power applications. Diamonds with engineered nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Francesco Mazzocchi , Martin Neidig , Hideaki Yamada , Sebastian Kempf , Dirk Strauss , Theo Scherer

Nanoscale confinement of molecules in a fluid can result in enhanced viscosity, local fluidic order, or collective motion. Confinement also affects ion transport and/or the rate and equilibrium concentration in a chemical reaction, all of…

Controllable atomic-scale quantum systems hold great potential as sensitive tools for nanoscale imaging and metrology. Possible applications range from nanoscale electric and magnetic field sensing to single photon microscopy, quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 P. Maletinsky , S. Hong , M. S. Grinolds , B. Hausmann , M. D. Lukin , R. -L. Walsworth , M. Loncar , A. Yacoby

We demonstrate operation of a rotation sensor based on the $^{14}$N nuclear spins intrinsic to nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond. The sensor employs optical polarization and readout of the nuclei and a radio-frequency…

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

Solid-state quantum sensors are attracting wide interest because of their exceptional sensitivity at room temperature. In particular, the spin properties of individual nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond make it an outstanding…

A fundamental result of quantum mechanics is that the fluctuations of a bosonic field are given by its temperature $T$. An electromagnetic mode with frequency $\omega$ in the microwave band has a significant thermal photon occupation at…

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

High biocompatibility, variable size ranging from ~ 5 nm, stable luminescence from its color centers and simple carbon chemistry for biomolecule grafting make nanodiamond (ND) particles an attractive alternative to molecular dyes for…

Owing to the unique electronic spin properties, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers hosted in diamond have emerged as a powerful quantum sensor for various physical parameters and biological species. In this work, a miniature optical-fiber…

This work presents a magnetic field imaging method based on color centres in diamond crystal applied to thin film structure. To demonstrate the capacity of our device we have used it for characterization of magnetic properties in…

Optically-detected paramagnetic centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as a promising platform for nanoscale metrology at room temperature. Of particular interest are applications where the center is used as a probe to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Abdelghani Laraoui , Daniela Pagliero , Carlos A. Meriles

A nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^-$) center in a nanodiamond, levitated in high vacuum, has recently been proposed as a probe for demonstrating mesoscopic center-of-mass superpositions \cite{Scala2013, Zhang2013} and for testing quantum gravity…

We report the experimental study of the temperature-dependence of the longitudinal spin relaxation time $T_1$ of single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers hosted in nanodiamonds. To determine the relaxation mechanisms at stake, measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Timothée de Guillebon , Baptiste Vindolet , Jean-François Roch , Vincent Jacques , Loïc Rondin

We explore the possibility to perform an in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) thermoelectric characterization of materials. A differential heating element on a custom in-situ TEM microchip allows to generate a temperature gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-14 Simon Hettler , Mohammad Furqan , Andres Sotelo , Raul Arenal

There is a great interest in the scientific community to perform calorimetry on samples having mass in the nanogram range. A detailed knowledge of the energy (heat) exchange in the fast growing family of micro- and nano-systems could…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 S. Veronesi , T. Papa , Y. Murata , S. Heun