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We reveal an interplay between temperature and radical concentration necessary to establish thermal mixing (TM) as an efficient dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) mechanism. We conducted DNP experiments by hyperpolarizing widely used DNP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ludovica M. Epasto , Thibaud Maimbourg , Alberto Rosso , Dennis Kurzbach

The polarisation dynamics of nuclear spins weakly coupled to an NV center is highly sensitive to the parameters of the microwave control and the nuclear Larmor frequency. What is commonly regarded as a challenge, we propose here as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Q. Chen , Z. -Y. Wang , B. Tratzmiller , I. Schwartz , M. B. Plenio

We use multi-pulse dynamical decoupling to increase the coherence lifetime (T2) of large numbers of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) electronic spins in room temperature diamond, thus enabling scalable applications of multi-spin quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. M. Pham , N. Bar-Gill , C. Belthangady , D. Le Sage , P. Cappellaro , M. D. Lukin , A. Yacoby , R. L. Walsworth

We introduce a method to construct a quantum battery and a quantum Otto heat engine using a Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center spin coupled to a mechanical oscillator in a highly detuned regime. By precisely controlling the NV spin, we enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed Hatifi , Anshuman Nayak , Jason Twamley

The interplay of dynamical nuclear polarization (DNP) and leakage current through a double quantum dot in the spin-blockade regime is analyzed. A finite DNP is built up due to a competition between hyperfine (HF) spin-flip transitions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Anders Mathias Lunde , Carlos López-Monís , Ioanna A. Vasiliadou , Luis L. Bonilla , Gloria Platero

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond and superconducting qubits are two promising solid-state quantum systems for quantum science and technology, but the realization of controlled interfaces between individual solid-state spins and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xue-Feng Pan , Peng-Bo Li

Spin squeezed states provide a seminal example of how the structure of quantum mechanical correlations can be controlled to produce metrologically useful entanglement. Such squeezed states have been demonstrated in a wide variety of…

We consider a mechanical resonator made of diamond, which contains a nitrogen-vacancy center (NV center) locating at the end of the oscillator. A second order magnetic gradient is applied and inducing coupling between mechanical modes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yue Ma , Zhang-qi Yin , Pu Huang , W. L. Yang , Jiangfeng Du

We employ a quantum computer to simulate the effect of spin impurities on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. As these defects operate as nanoscale quantum sensors, modeling quantum noise is crucial to identify limitations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Alberto López-García , Aikaterini Vasilakou , Javier Cerrillo

Here we propose and analyse in detail protocols that can achieve rapid hyperpolarization of 13C nuclear spins in randomly oriented ensembles of nanodiamonds at room temperature. Our protocols exploit a combination of optical polarization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Q. Chen , I. Schwarz , F. Jelezko , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio

Direct dynamic nuclear polarization of 1H nuclei in frozen water and water-ethanol mixtures is demonstrated using silicon nanoparticles as the polarizing agent. Electron spins at dangling-bond sites near the silicon surface are identified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 M. C. Cassidy , C. Ramanathan , D. G. Cory , J. W. Ager , C. M. Marcus

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain interesting problems significantly faster than classical computers. To exploit the power of a quantum computation it is necessary to perform inter-qubit operations and generate entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Michael D. Shulman , Oliver E. Dial , Shannon P. Harvey , Hendrik Bluhm , Vladimir Umansky , Amir Yacoby

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is well known in quantum metrology and quantum information for its favorable spin and optical properties, which span a wide temperature range from near zero to over 600 K. Despite its prominence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Stefan Ernst , Patrick J. Scheidegger , Simon Diesch , Christian L. Degen

Entanglement is a key quantum feature that enables quantum sensors to improve their sensitivity up to the Heisenberg limit. In the NV center platform, the Heisenberg limit can only be achieved when the axes of the NV centers are parallel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Marcel Morillas-Rozas , Alberto López-García , Javier Cerrillo

The nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond is promising as an electron spin qubit due to its long-lived coherence and optical addressability. The ground state is a spin triplet with two levels ($m_s = \pm 1$) degenerate at zero magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-15 T. P. Mayer Alegre , C. Santori , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , R. G. Beausoleil

We theoretically study the nuclear spin dynamics driven by electron transport and hyperfine interaction in an electrically-defined double quantum dot (DQD) in the Pauli-blockade regime. We derive a master-equation-based framework and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Martin J. A. Schuetz , Eric M. Kessler , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

We propose a new approach to simulate the decoherence of a central spin coupled to an interacting dissipative spin bath with cluster-correlation expansion techniques. We benchmark the approach on generic 1D and 2D spin baths and find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Mykyta Onizhuk , Yu-Xin Wang , Jonah Nagura , Aashish A. Clerk , Giulia Galli

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization process by frequently injecting polarized electron spins into a quantum dot. Due to the suppression of the direct dipolar and indirect electron-mediated nuclear spin interactions, by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Na Wu , Wenkui Ding , Anqi Shi , Wenxian Zhang

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamond offer a promising platform for quantum information processing due to their room-temperature spin coherence and optical addressability. However, scalable quantum processors remain limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Guangyu Zhang , Huaijin Zhang , Zhang-qi Yin

The novel aspect of the centre (NV-) in diamond is the high degree of spin polarisation achieved through optical illumination. In this paper it is shown that the spin polarisation occurs as a consequence of an electron-vibration interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-15 Neil Manson , Lachlan Rogers , Marcus Doherty , Lloyd Hollenberg