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Solid-state spin defects, especially nuclear spins with potentially achievable long coherence times, are compelling candidates for quantum memories and sensors. However, their current performances are still limited by the decoherence due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Guoqing Wang , Ariel Rebekah Barr , Hao Tang , Mo Chen , Changhao Li , Haowei Xu , Ju Li , Paola Cappellaro

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

Controlling the interaction of a single quantum system with its environment is a fundamental challenge in quantum science and technology. We dramatically suppress the coupling of a single spin in diamond with the surrounding spin bath by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 G. de Lange , Z. H. Wang , D. Ristè , V. V. Dobrovitski , R. Hanson

The accumulation of quantum phase in response to a signal is the central mechanism of quantum sensing, as such, loss of phase information presents a fundamental limitation. For this reason approaches to extend quantum coherence in the…

Magnetic resonance detection is one of the most important tools used in life-sciences today. However, as the technique detects the magnetization of large ensembles of spins it is fundamentally limited in spatial resolution to mesoscopic…

Quantum sensing has seen rapid progress from laboratory research to real-world applications. Solid-state spin systems, particularly nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, are attractive for their ability to operate at room temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jonathan Kenny , Feifei Zhou , Ruihua He , Fedor Jelezko , Teck Seng Koh , Weibo Gao

Nanoscale quantum probes such as the nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond have demonstrated remarkable sensing capabilities over the past decade as control over the fabrication and manipulation of these systems has evolved. However, as the…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are extensively utilized as quantum sensors for imaging fields at the nanoscale. The ultra-high sensitivity of NV magnetometers has enabled the detection and spectroscopy of individual electron…

The ability to design quantum systems that decouple from environmental noise sources is highly desirable for development of quantum technologies with optimal coherence. The chemical tunability of electronic states in magnetic molecules…

An obstacle for spin-based quantum sensors is magnetic noise due to proximal spins. However, such a spin cluster surrounding the sensor can become an asset, if it can be controlled. Here, we polarize and readout a cluster of three nitrogen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Helena S. Knowles , Dhiren M. Kara , Mete Atatüre

Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising quantum sensors but suffer from noise-induced short coherence times due to bulk and surface impurities. We present interfacial engineering via oxygen termination and graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Wing Ki Lo , Yaowen Zhang , Ho Yin Chow , Jiahao Wu , Man Yin Leung , Kin On Ho , Xuliang Du , Yifan Chen , Yang Shen , Ding Pan , Sen Yang

Recent advances towards spin-based quantum computation have been primarily fuelled by elaborate isolation from noise sources, such as surrounding nuclear spins and spin-electric susceptibility, to extend spin coherence. In the meanwhile,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 J. Yoneda , K. Takeda , T. Otsuka , T. Nakajima , M. R. Delbecq , G. Allison , T. Honda , T. Kodera , S. Oda , Y. Hoshi , N. Usami , K. M. Itoh , S. Tarucha

Hybrid qubit systems combining electronic spins with nearby ("proximate") nuclear spin registers offer a promising avenue towards quantum information processing, with even multi-spin error correction protocols recently demonstrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Guichard , S. J. Balian , G. Wolfowicz , P. A. Mortemousque , T. S. Monteiro

Mobile spin qubit architectures promise flexible connectivity for efficient quantum error correction and relaxed device layout constraints, but their viability rests on preserving spin coherence during transport. While shuttling transforms…

Decoherence in Nature has become one of the most pressing problems in physics. Many applications, including quantum information processing, depend on understanding it; and fundamental theories going beyond quantum mechanics have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 S. Takahashi , I. S. Tupitsyn , J. van Tol , C. C. Beedle , D. N. Hendrickson , P. C. E. Stamp

Although a nuclear spin is weakly coupled to its environment, due to its small gyromagnetic ratio, its coherence time is limited by the hyperfine coupling to a nearby noisy electron. Here, we propose to utilize continuous dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Itsik Cohen , Thomas Unden , Fedor Jelezko , Alex Retzker

Controlling decoherence is the most challenging task in realizing quantum information hardware. Single electron spins in gallium arsenide are a leading candidate among solid- state implementations, however strong coupling to nuclear spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Yongjie Hu , Ferdinand Kuemmeth , Charles M. Lieber , Charles M. Marcus

Spin impurities in diamond have emerged as a promising building block in a wide range of solid-state-based quantum technologies. The negatively charged silicon-vacancy centre combines the advantages of its high-quality photonic properties…

The central spin decoherence problem has been researched for over 50 years in the context of both nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance. Until recently, theoretical models have employed phenomenological stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll , Lukasz Cywinski , S. Das Sarma

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…