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Nitrogen vacancy centres (NVC) in diamond have been widely used for near-dc magnetometry. The intrinsic properties of diamonds make them potential candidates for tokamak fusion power diagnostics, where radiation-hard magnetometers will be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 S. M. Graham , C. J. Stephen , A. J. Newman , A. M. Edmonds , M. L. Markham , G. W. Morley

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a widely-utilized system due to its useful quantum properties. Almost all research focuses on the negative charge state (NV$^-$) and comparatively little is understood about the neutral charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 M. S. J. Barson , E. Krausz , N. B. Manson , M. W. Doherty

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond is an important physical system for emergent quantum technologies, including quantum metrology, information processing and communications, as well as for various nanotechnologies, such as…

We propose an efficient scheme for a coherent quantum interface between microwave and optical photons using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. In this setup, an NV center ensemble is simultaneously coupled to an optical and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Bo Li , Peng-Bo Li , Yuan Zhou , Sheng-Li Ma , Fu-Li Li

The fluorescent nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond has remarkable photophysical properties, including high photostability, which allows stable fluorescence emission for hours; as a result, there has been much interest in using…

Solid state spins have demonstrated significant potential in quantum sensing with applications including fundamental science, medical diagnostics and navigation. The quantum sensing schemes showing best performance under ambient conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Beat Bürgler , Tobias F. Sjolander , Ovidiu Brinza , Alexandre Tallaire , Jocelyn Achard , Patrick Maletinsky

Current density distributions in active integrated circuits (ICs) result in patterns of magnetic fields that contain structural and functional information about the IC. Magnetic fields pass through standard materials used by the…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a potential atomic-scale spin sensor for electric field sensing. However, its natural susceptibility to the magnetic field hinders effective detection of the electric field. Here we propose a robust…

Despite decades of advances in magnetic imaging, obtaining direct, quantitative information with nanometer scale spatial resolution remains an outstanding challenge. Recently, a new technique has emerged that employs a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 L. Rondin , J. P. Tetienne , S. Rohart , A. Thiaville , T. Hingant , P. Spinicelli , J. -F. Roch , V. Jacques

Magnetometry based on diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers has been extensively studied for applications requiring diverse capabilities, spanning from nanometer spatial resolution to subpicotesla sensitivity. Among various applications,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-09 Jihongbo Shen , Heng Yuan , Hongyu Tao , Zekun Niu , Haoming Xu , Chentao Zhang , Chen Su , Zhuo Wang , Chen Zhang

For decades, searches for exotic spin interactions have used increasingly-precise laboratory measurements to test various theoretical models of particle physics. However, most searches have focused on interaction length scales greater than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 P. -H. Chu , N. Ristoff , J. Smits , N. Jackson , Y. J. Kim , I. Savukov , V. M. Acosta

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 David A. Hopper , Richard R. Grote , Samuel M. Parks , Lee C. Bassett

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be used as quantum sensors to image the magnetic field with nanoscale resolution. However, nanoscale electric-field mapping has not been achieved so far because of the relatively weak coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ke Bian , Wentian Zheng , Xianzhe Zeng , Xiakun Chen , Rainer Stohr , Andrej Denisenko , Sen Yang , Joerg Wrachtrup , Ying Jiang

Nanophotonic devices in color center-containing hosts provide efficient readout, control, and entanglement of the embedded emitters. Yet control over color center formation - in number, position, and coherence - in nanophotonic devices…

Diamond is a host for a wide variety of colour centres that have demonstrated outstanding optical and spin properties. Among them, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre is by far the most investigated owing to its superior characteristics, which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 J. Achard , V. Jacques , A. Tallaire

Detection of AC magnetic fields at the nanoscale is critical in applications ranging from fundamental physics to materials science. Isolated quantum spin defects, such as the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, can achieve the desired…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Guoqing Wang , Yi-Xiang Liu , Yuan Zhu , Paola Cappellaro

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond work as a quantum electrometer. Using an ensemble state of NV centers, we propose vector electrometry and demonstrate measurements in a diamond electronic device. A transverse electric field applied…

Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamond is becoming an established tool for studying nanoscale physics in condensed matter systems. However, the optical access required for NV spin readout remains an important hurdle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Yufan Li , Fabian A. Gerritsma , Samer Kurdi , Nina Codreanu , Simon Gröblacher , Ronald Hanson , Richard Norte , Toeno van der Sar

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a heavily studied defect due to its potential applications to quantum metrology and computation, particularly in ambient conditions. The key mechanism to using the NV in any application lies in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Liam Hanlon , Michael Olney-Fraser , Lukas Razinkovas , Marcus W. Dohert

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond has demonstrated great promise in a wide range of quantum sensing. Recently, there have been a series of proposals and experiments using NV centers to detect spin noise of quantum materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Jacob Henshaw , Pauli Kehayias , Luca Basso , Michael Jaris , Rong Cong , Michael Titze , Tzu-Ming Lu , Michael P. Lilly , Andrew M. Mounce