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Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have emerged as highly versatile optical emitters that exhibit room temperature spin properties. These characteristics make NV centers ideal for magnetometry, which plays an important role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kangmook Lim , Chad Ropp , Benjamin Shapiro , Jacob M. Taylor , Edo Waks

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…

Sensing based on Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds (NDs) offers significant potential across various applications. However, optimizing their quantum-optical properties remains challenging. This study focuses on enhancing and…

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond is the focus of widespread attention for applications ranging from quantum information processing to nanoscale metrology. Although most work so far has focused on the NV-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Siddharth Dhomkar , Jacob Henshaw , Harishankar Jayakumar , Carlos A. Meriles

Diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center magnetometry has recently received considerable interest from researchers in the fields of applied physics and sensors. The purpose of this review is to analyze the principle, sensitivity, technical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Jixing Zhang , Lixia Xu , Guodong Bian , Pengcheng Fan , Mingxin Li , Wuming Liu , Heng Yuan

Many applications of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond crucially rely on a spectrally narrow and stable optical zero-phonon line transition. Though many impressive proof-of-principle experiments have been demonstrated, much work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Albert Liu , Steven T. Cundiff , Diogo B. Almeida , Ronald Ulbricht

We introduce a microwave-assisted spectroscopy technique to determine the relative concentrations of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are negatively-charged (NV${}^-$) and neutrally-charged (NV${}^0$), and present its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 D. P. L. Aude Craik , P. Kehayias , A. S. Greenspon , X. Zhang , M. J. Turner , J. M. Schloss , E. Bauch , C. A. Hart , E. L. Hu , R. L. Walsworth

Despite the considerable interest for antiferromagnets which appeared with the perspective of using them for spintronics, their experimental study, including the imaging of antiferromagnetic textures, remains a challenge. To address this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Aurore Finco , Vincent Jacques

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state spin defect that has been widely adopted for quantum sensing and quantum information processing applications. Typically, experiments are performed either with a single isolated NV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Matthew Cambria , Saroj Chand , Caitlin Reiter , Shimon Kolkowitz

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

Temperature sensing at the nanoscale is a significant experimental challenge. Here, we report an approach using dressed states to make a leading quantum sensor (the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond) selectively sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Nathaniel M Beaver , Paul Stevenson

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond allow measurement of environment properties such as temperature, magnetic and electric fields at nanoscale level, of utmost relevance for several research fields, ranging from nanotechnologies to…

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…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely deployed as local magnetic sensors, using coherent, single qubit control to measure both time-averaged fields and noise with nanoscale spatial resolution. Moving beyond single qubits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Jared Rovny , Shimon Kolkowitz , Nathalie P. de Leon

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

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is emerging as a promising platform for solid-state quantum information processing and nanoscale metrology. Of interest in these applications is the manipulation of the NV charge, which can be…

Photonic spin density (PSD) in the near-field gives rise to exotic phenomena such as photonic skyrmions, optical spin-momentum locking and unidirectional topological edge waves. Experimental investigation of these phenomena requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Farid Kalhor , Li-Ping Yang , Leif Bauer , Zubin Jacob

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, optically-active atomic defects in diamond, have attracted tremendous interest for quantum sensing, network, and computing applications due to their excellent quantum coherence and remarkable versatility in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Nathan J. McLaughlin , Yoav Kalcheim , Albert Suceava , Hailong Wang , Ivan K. Schuller , Chunhui Rita Du

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond exhibits spin-dependent fluorescence and long spin coherence times under ambient conditions, enabling applications in quantum information processing and sensing. NV centers near the surface can…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond is an efficient quantum sensor of randomly fluctuating signals via relaxometry measurements. In particular, the longitudinal spin relaxation of the NV defect accelerates in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 M. Rollo , A. Finco , R. Tanos , F. Fabre , T. Devolder , I. Robert-Philip , V. Jacques