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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…

Imaging spin-wave propagation in magnetic materials in a wide frequency range is crucial for understanding and applying spin-wave dynamics. Recently, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted attention as sensors capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Kensuke Ogawa , Moeta Tsukamoto , Yusuke Mori , Daigo Takafuji , Junichi Shiogai , Kohei Ueda , Jobu Matsuno , Kento Sasaki , Kensuke Kobayashi

A central aim of quantum information processing is the efficient entanglement of multiple stationary quantum memories via photons. Among solid-state systems, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond has emerged as an excellent optically…

On-chip scalable integration represents a major challenge for practical quantum devices. One particular challenge is to implement on-chip optical readout of spins in diamond. This readout requires simultaneous application of optical and…

Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is the representative solid state defect qubit for quantum information science, offering long coherence time at room temperature. To achieve high sensitivity and spatial resolution,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Pei Li , Guanjian Hu , Xiao Yu , Bing Huang , Song Li

Enhancing the measurement signal from solid state quantum sensors such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an important problem for sensing and imaging of condensed matter systems. Here we engineer diamond scanning probes with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 N. Hedrich , D. Rohner , M. Batzer , P. Maletinsky , B. J. Shields

The last decade has seen an explosive growth in the use of color centers for metrology applications, the paradigm example arguably being the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. Here, we focus on the regime of cryogenic temperatures and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Richard Monge , Tom Delord , Gergő Thiering , Ádám Gali , Carlos A. Meriles

Recent advancements in quantum technology have highlighted the potential of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. However, fully realizing this potential requires addressing challenges related to the size, complexity, and cost of…

Diamond-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) enable direct coupling between the quantum states of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers and the phonon modes of a mechanical resonator. One example, diamond high-overtone bulk acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Huiyao Chen , Noah F. Opondo , Boyang Jiang , Evan R. MacQuarrie , Raphaël S. Daveau , Sunil A. Bhave , Gregory D. Fuchs

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is an enormously important platform for the development of quantum sensors, including for single spin and single molecule NMR. Detection of weak single-spin signals is greatly enhanced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. E. Lang , J. Casanova , Z. -Y. Wang , M. B. Plenio , T. S. Monteiro

Optically-detected magnetic resonance using Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) color centres in diamond is a leading modality for nanoscale magnetic field imaging, as it provides single electron spin sensitivity, three-dimensional resolution better than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Arai , C. Belthangady , H. Zhang , N. Bar-Gill , S. J. DeVience , P. Cappellaro , A. Yacoby , R. L. Walsworth

We experimentally demonstrate a method for measuring correlations of wideband magnetic signals with spatial resolution below the optical diffraction limit. Our technique employs two nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as nanoscale…

We report a systematic study of the magnetic field sensitivity of a magnetic sensor based on a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond, by using continuous optically detected electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. We first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Dréau , M. Lesik , L. Rondin , P. Spinicelli , O. Arcizet , J. -F. Roch , V. Jacques

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry is a new technique for imaging spin waves in magnetic materials. It detects spin waves by their microwave magnetic stray fields, which decay evanescently on the scale of the spin-wavelength. Here, we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Brecht G. Simon , Samer Kurdi , Joris J. Carmiggelt , Michael Borst , Allard Katan , Toeno van der Sar

The nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond is one of the most important systems in the fast-growing field of sensing. This color centers are used in both high-resolution and high-sensitivity sensors. However, techniques for quick and…

The NV center in diamond has proven to be a powerful tool for locally characterizing the magnetic response of microwave excited ferromagnets. To date, this has been limited by the requirement that the FMR excitation frequency be less than…

Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been extensively studied as a promising high sensitivity solid-state magnetic field sensor at room temperature. However, their use for current sensing applications is limited…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-18 Qihui Liu , Hao Chen , Fei Xie , Yuqiang Hu , Jin Zhang , Nan Wang , Lihao Wang , Yichen Liu , Yang Wang , Zhichao Chen , Lingyun Li , Jiangong Cheng , Zhenyu Wu

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy center (NV) in diamond forms a versatile system for quantum sensing applications. Combining the advantageous properties of this atomic-sized defect with scanning probe techniques such as atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Philipp Fuchs , Michel Challier , Elke Neu

We describe an experimentally feasible protocol for performing a variant of the quantum delayed-choice experiment with massive objects. In this scheme, a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond driven by microwave fields is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Peng-Bo Li , Fu-Li Li

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