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The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum system for magnetometry applications exhibiting optical readout of minute energy shifts in its spin sub-levels. Key material requirements for NV ensembles are a high NV$^-$…

Magnetometers based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising room-temperature, solid-state sensors. However, their reported sensitivity to magnetic fields at low frequencies (<1 kHz) is presently >10 pT s^{1/2}, precluding…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has enabled studies of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance with high sensitivity in small sample volumes. Most NV-detected NMR (NV-NMR) experiments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yuhang Ren , Cooper Selco , Dylan Kawashiri , Michael Coumans , Benjamin Fortman , Louis S. Bouchard , Karoly Holczer , Susumu Takahashi

Microwave magnetometry is essential for the advancement of microwave technologies. We demonstrate a broadband microwave sensing protocol using the AC Zeeman effect with ensemble nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. A widefield…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Kensuke Ogawa , Shunsuke Nishimura , Kento Sasaki , Kensuke Kobayasahi

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the optically detected magnetic resonance signals for ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in 13C isotopically enriched single-crystal diamond. We observe four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Jarmola , Z. Bodrog , P. Kehayias , M. Markham , J. Hall , D. J. Twitchen , V. M. Acosta , A. Gali , D. Budker

The last decade has seen an explosive growth in the use of color centers for metrology applications, the paradigm example arguably being the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. Here, we focus on the regime of cryogenic temperatures and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Richard Monge , Tom Delord , Gergő Thiering , Ádám Gali , Carlos A. Meriles

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

New schemes that exploit the unique properties of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are presently being explored as a platform for high-resolution magnetic sensing. Here we focus on the ability of a NV center to monitor an adjacent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Abdelghani Laraoui , Jonathan S. Hodges , Colm Ryan , Carlos A. Meriles

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are defects in diamonds, which, due to their electronic structure, have been extensively studied as magnetic field sensors. Such field detection applications usually employ the NV centers to detect field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Shonali Dhingra , Brian D'Urso

High-sensitivity magnetometers play a crucial role in various domains, including fundamental physics, biomedical imaging, and navigation. Levitated diamonds containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers exhibit significant potential for magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Huaijin Zhang , Zhang-Qi Yin

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been developed as a promising platform for quantum sensing, especially for magnetic field measurements in the nano-tesla range with a nanometer resolution. Optical spin readout performance has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Xue Lin , Jingwei Fan , Runchuan Ye , Mingti Zhou , Yumeng Song , Dawei Lu , Nanyang Xu

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are appealing nano-scale quantum sensors for temperature, strain, electric fields and, most notably, for magnetic fields. However, the cryogenic temperatures required for low-noise single-shot…

Optically detected magnetic resonance of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond offers novel routes to both DC and AC magnetometry in diamond anvil cells under high pressures ($>3$ GPa). However, a serious challenge to realizing experiments…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-29 L. Steele , M. Lawson , M. Onyszczak , B. T. Bush , Z. Mei , A. P. Dioguardi , J. King , A. Parker , A. Pines , S. T. Weir , W. Evans , K. Visbeck , Y. K. Vohra , N. J. Curro

We perform a detailed theoretical-experimental study of the dynamical decoupling (DD) of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. We investigate the DD sequences applied to suppress the dephasing of the electron spin of the NV center…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Zhi-Hui Wang , G. de Lange , D. Riste , R. Hanson , V. V. Dobrovitski

A simple and convenient design enables real-time three-dimensional position tracking of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The system consists entirely of commercially available components (a single photon counter, a high-speed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Kiho Kim , Jiwon Yun , Donghyuck Lee , Dohun Kim

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a sensitive probe of magnetic field and a promising qubit candidate for quantum information processing. The performance of many NV-based devices improves by aligning the NV(s) parallel to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Todd Karin , Scott Dunham , Kai-Mei Fu

We demonstrate $4\pi$-steradian vector magnetic field sensing using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond coupled to a microwave (MW) cavity. The MW cavity enhances the spin-photon coupling which enables…

Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond are promising quantum magnetic field sensors. Laser threshold magnetometry has been a theoretical approach for the improvement of NV-centre ensemble sensitivity via increased signal…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is the prototype quantum defect that enables a variety of diamond-based quantum technologies. However, charge-state instability and spectral diffusion, often induced by substitutional nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Chandan Kumar Vishwakarma , J. K. Nangoi , Mark E. Turiansky , Chris G. Van de Walle

In this work we present a compact and portable tabletop magnetometer that utilizes negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The magnetometer is operated using a dual microwave resonance detection approach in combination…