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Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) is a widely common method in the field of quantum sensing. Specifically with the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond, used for sensing magnetic and electric fields, strain and temperature. However, ESR…

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We report on the implementation of a scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometer in a dry dilution refrigerator. Using pulsed optically detected magnetic resonance combined with efficient microwave delivery through a co-planar waveguide, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Patrick J. Scheidegger , Simon Diesch , Marius L. Palm , Christian L. Degen

In recent years, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have become excellent solid-state quantum sensors due to their electronic spin properties. Especially for their easy optical initialization and detection, together with their…

Quantum magnetometers based on spin defects in solids enable sensitive imaging of various magnetic phenomena, such as ferro- and antiferromagnetism, superconductivity, and current-induced fields. Existing protocols primarily focus on static…

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on subnanoliter (sub-nL) volumes are hindered by the limited sensitivity of the detector and the difficulties in positioning and holding such small samples in proximity of the detector. Here, we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 E. Montinaro , M. Grisi , M. C. Letizia , L. Pethö , M. A. M. Gijs , R. Guidetti , J. Michler , J. Brugger , G. Boero

Achieving high-frequency spectral resolution with quantum sensors, while crucial in fields ranging from physical to biological sciences, is challenging due to their finite coherence time. Here, we introduce a novel protocol that achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Jungbae Yoon , Keyuan Zhong , Guoqing Wang , Boning Li , Donghun Lee , Paola Cappellaro

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

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

Accurately establishing the state of large-scale quantum systems is an important tool in quantum information science; however, the large number of unknown parameters hinders the rapid characterisation of such states, and reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Francesco Tonolini , Susan Chan , Megan Agnew , Alan Lindsay , Jonathan Leach

Quantum sensors, such as the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) color center in diamond, are known for their exquisite sensitivity, but their performance over time are subject to degradation by environmental noise. To improve the long-term robustness of…

Quantum sensing with solid-state spin defects has transformed nanoscale metrology, offering sub-wavelength spatial resolution with exceptional sensitivity to multiple signal types. Maximizing these advantages requires minimizing both the…

Classical sensors for spectrum analysis are widely used but lack micro- or nanoscale spatial resolution. On the other hand, quantum sensors, capable of working with nanoscale precision, do not provide precise frequency resolution over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nicolas Staudenmaier , Simon Schmitt , Liam P. McGuinness , Fedor Jelezko

Optically addressable ensembles of solid-state defects, such as nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, are a leading modality for imaging-based magnetometry, thermometry and strain sensing. However, monitoring the fluorescence of individual defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nico Deshler , Declan Daly , Ayan Majumder , Kasturi Saha , Saikat Guha

In recent years, quantum nanophotonics has forged a rich nexus of nanotechnology with photonic quantum information processing, offering remarkable prospects for advancing quantum technologies beyond their current technical limits in terms…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Daniel D. A. Clarke , Ortwin Hess

Analysis of nanoscale liquids, including wetting and flow phenomena, is a scientific challenge with far reaching implications for industrial technologies. We report the conception, development, and application of an integrated platform for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-27 M. Engel , P. W. Bryant , R. F. Neumann , R. Giro , C. Feger , P. Avouris , M. Steiner

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds have been explored for realizing a wide range of sensing applications in the last decade due to their unique quantum properties. Here we realize a compact and portable magnetometer with an ensemble…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Himanshu Kumar , Dasika Shishir , Maheshwar Mangat , Siddharth Tallur , Kasturi Saha

The resources required to characterise the dynamics of engineered quantum systems-such as quantum computers and quantum sensors-grow exponentially with system size. Here we adapt techniques from compressive sensing to exponentially reduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 A. Shabani , R. L. Kosut , M. Mohseni , H. Rabitz , M. A. Broome , M. P. Almeida , A. Fedrizzi , A. G. White

The integration of light and materials technology is key to the creation of innovative sensing technologies. Sensing of electric and magnetic fields, and temperature with high spatio-temporal resolution is a critical task for the…

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are ideal platforms for quantum simulation, which allows one to handle problems that are intractable theoretically or experimentally. Here we propose a digital quantum simulation scheme to simulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chenyong Ju , Chao Lei , Xiangkun Xu , Dimitrie Culcer , Zhenyu Zhang , Jiangfeng Du

Physics and information are intimately connected, and the ultimate information processing devices will be those that harness the principles of quantum mechanics. Many physical systems have been identified as candidates for quantum…