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Nanodiamonds containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers offer a versatile platform for sensing applications spanning from nanomagnetism to in-vivo monitoring of cellular processes. In many cases, however, weak optical signals and poor…

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We demonstrate thermometry with a resolution of 80 $\mathrm{nK} / \sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ using an isotropic crystalline whispering-gallery mode resonator based on a dichroic dual-mode technique. We simultaneously excite two modes that have a…

Nanodiamonds (NDs) are quantum sensors that enable local temperature measurements, taking advantage of their small size. Though the model based analysis methods have been used for ND quantum thermometry, their accuracy has yet to be…

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The negatively-charged NV$^-$-center in diamond has shown great success in nanoscale, high-sensitivity magnetometry. Efficient fluorescence detection is crucial for improving the sensitivity. Furthermore, integrated devices enable…

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

Nanodiamonds containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers can serve as colloidal quantum sensors of local fields in biological and chemical environments. However, nanodiamond surfaces are challenging to modify without degrading their colloidal…

Probing electrical and magnetic properties in aqueous environments remains a frontier challenge in nanoscale sensing. Our inability to do so with quantitative accuracy imposes severe limitations, for example, on our understanding of the…

Individual, luminescent point defects in solids so called color centers are atomic-sized quantum systems enabling sensing and imaging with nanoscale spatial resolution. In this overview, we introduce nanoscale sensing based on individual…

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Nano-indentation based on, e.g., atomic force microscopy (AFM), can measure single cell elasticity with high spatial resolution and sensitivity, but relating the data to cell mechanical properties depends on modeling that requires knowledge…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yue Cui , Weng-Hang Leong , Chu-Feng Liu , Kangwei Xia , Xi Feng , Csilla Gergely , Ren-Bao Liu , Quan Li

Observation of quantum phenomena in cryogenic, optically cooled mechanical resonators has been recently achieved by a few experiments based on cavity optomechanics. A well-established experimental platform is based on a thin film…

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a leading solid-state quantum emitter, offering spin-photon interfaces over a wide temperature range with applications from electromagnetic sensing to bioimaging. While NV…

Precise assessment of the mechanical properties of soft biological systems at the nanoscale is crucial for understanding physiology, pathology, and developing relevant drugs. Conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based indentation…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Yue Cui , Weng-Hang Leong , Guoli Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu , Quan Li

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a well utilized system for quantum technology, in particular quantum sensing and microscopy. Fully employing the NV center's capabilities for metrology requires a strong understanding of the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 M. S. J. Barson , P. M. Reddy , S. Yang , N. B. Manson , J. Wrachtrup , M. W. Doherty

Alkali metal ions such as sodium and potassium cations play fundamental roles in biology. Developing highly sensitive and selective methods to both detect and quantify these ions is of considerable importance for medical diagnostics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Changhao Li , Shao-Xiong Lennon Luo , Daniel M. Kim , Guoqing Wang , Paola Cappellaro

In many chemical reactions, short-lived radical intermediates play a crucial role, while detecting such short-lived species in-situ remains challenging. The optically readable electronic spin of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond is a…

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Biological tissue integrity is actively maintained by cells. It is essential to comprehend how cells accomplish this in order to stage tissue diseases. However, addressing the complexity of a cell's system of interrelated mechanisms poses a…

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Quantum simulation aims to recreate complex many-body phenomena in controlled environments, offering insights into dynamics that are otherwise difficult to model. Existing platforms, however, are often complex and costly to scale, typically…

Studies of individual quantum systems, which have led to considerable progress in our understanding of quantum physics, have traditionally been associated with atomic gases. In the last decades however, the emphasis has shifted towards…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-26 J. -P. Tetienne , L. P. McGuinness , V. Jacques

We demonstrate a novel method based on the Zeeman splitting of electronic spins to improve the performance for temperature sensing of negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in multiple-poly diamond. The theoretical model for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Li Xing , Xiaojuan Feng , Jintao Zhang , Zheng Wang

We report an experimental design where the position and resonance frequency of the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) in a diamond are correlated with the room temperature. A simple model trained on the interpolated correlation data predicts both…

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