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New magnetometry techniques based on Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) defects in diamond have received much attention of late as a means to probe nanoscale magnetic environments. The sensitivity of a single NV magnetometer is primarily determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Liam T. Hall , Charles D. Hill , Jared H. Cole , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We demonstrated optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in microdiamonds inside a diamond anvil cell pressurized with nanopolycrystalline diamond (NPD) anvils. NPD exhibits high optical transparency,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Masahiro Ohkuma , Keigo Arai , Kenji Ohta , Toru Shinmei , Ryo Matsumoto , Yoshihiko Takano , Tetsuo Irifune

A dense layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers near the surface of a diamond can be interrogated in a widefield optical microscope to produce spatially resolved maps of local quantities such as magnetic field, electric field and lattice…

High-sensitivity detection of microscopic magnetic field is essential in many fields. Good sensitivity and high spatial resolution are mutually contradictory in measurement, which is quantified by the energy resolution limit (ERL). Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Zhiyuan Zhao , Xiangyu Ye , Shaoyi Xu , Pei Yu , Zhiping Yang , Xi Kong , Ya Wang , Tianyu Xie , Fazhan Shi , Jiangfeng Du

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading platform for solid-state quantum sensing and quantum information processing. While most optical studies rely on the visible fluorescence associated with the triplet transitions, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 B. Göblyös , S. Kollarics , R. Kucsera , D. Plitt , K. Koltai , B. G. Márkus , L. Forró , F. Simon

This study explores nonlinear optical effects in diamond crystals doped with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, focusing on the optical Kerr effect in the infrared spectral region. By employing the Z-scan technique with 230 fs laser pulses at a…

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…

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

We operate a nitrogen vacancy (NV-) diamond magnetometer at ambient temperatures and study the dependence of its bandwidth on experimental parameters including optical and microwave excitation powers. We introduce an analytical theory that…

Recently, the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center has emerged as a robust and versatile quantum sensor in pressurized environments. There are two popular ways to implement NV sensing in a diamond anvil cell (DAC), which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Kin On Ho , Man Yin Leung , Wenyan Wang , Jianyu Xie , King Yau Yip , Jiahao Wu , Swee K. Goh , Andrej Denisenko , Jörg Wrachtrup , Sen Yang

We perform pulsed optically detected electron spin resonance to measure the DC magnetic field sensitivity and electronic spin coherence time T_2 of an ensemble of near-surface, high-density nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers engineered to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Kento Sasaki , Ed E. Kleinsasser , Zhouyang Zhu , Wen-Di Li , Hideyuki Watanabe , Kai-Mei C. Fu , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

We develop a parallel optically detected magnetic resonance (PODMR) spectrometer to address, manipulate and read out an array of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond in parallel. In this spectrometer, we use an array of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Mingcheng Cai , Zhongzhi Guo , Fazhan Shi , Chunxing Li , Mengqi Wang , Wei Ji , Pengfei Wang , Jiangfeng Du

The measurement of vector magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution is important for both fundamental science and engineering applications. In particular, magnetic-field sensing with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Takuya Isogawa , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Junko Ishi-Hayase

We demonstrate a robust experimental method for determining the depth of individual shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond with $\sim1$ nm uncertainty. We use a confocal microscope to observe single NV centers and detect the…

Sensing static or slowly varying magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution is critical to many applications in fundamental physics, bioimaging and materials science. Several versatile magnetometry platforms have emerged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 A. Ajoy , Y. X. Liu , P. Cappellaro

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond hold promise of ultraprecise magnetometery competing with SQUID detectors. By utilizing advantages of dielectric materials such as very low losses for electromagnetic field and…

Diamond membrane devices containing optically coherent nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are key to enable novel cryogenic experiments such as optical ground-state cooling of hybrid spin-mechanical systems and efficient entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Maximilian Ruf , Mark IJspeert , Suzanne van Dam , Nick de Jong , Hans van den Berg , Guus Evers , Ronald Hanson

This paper presents a method for determination of the size distribution for diamond nanocrystals containing luminescent nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers using the luminescence intensity only. We also revise the basic photo physical properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Taras Plakhotnik , Haroon Aman

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging with nanometer resolution requires new detection techniques with sensitivity well beyond the capability of conventional inductive detection. Here, we demonstrate two dimensional imaging of $^1$H NMR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Rugar , H. J. Mamin , M. H. Sherwood , M. Kim , C. T. Rettner , K. Ohno , D. D. Awschalom

We investigate nonlinear optical absorption in diamond crystals containing high densities of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers using open-aperture Z-scan measurements with 230 fs laser pulses at 1032 nm, within the transparency window of…