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Control over the charge states of color centers in solids is necessary in order to fully utilize them in quantum technologies. However, the microscopic charge dynamics of deep defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors are complex, and much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 A. Gardill , I. Kemeny , M. C. Cambria , Y. Li , H. T. Dinani , A. Norambuena , J. R. Maze , V. Lordi , S. Kolkowitz

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an ideal candidate for quantum sensors because of its excellent optical and coherence property. However, previous studies are usually conducted at low or room temperature. The lack of full…

Point defects in semiconductors are becoming central to quantum technologies. They can be used as spin qubits interfacing with photons, which are fundamental for building quantum networks. Currently, the most prominent quantum defect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Yihuang Xiong , Yizhi Zhu , Shay McBride , Sinéad M. Griffin , Geoffroy Hautier

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising systems for quantum technologies, including quantum metrology and sensing. A promising strategy for the achievement of high sensitivity to external fields relies on the exploitation of…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for quantum sensing technologies. Here, we present a fully integrated and mechanically robust fiber-based endoscopic sensor with a tip diameter of $1.25 \mathrm{mm}$. On its…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged in recent years as leading quantum sensors in various modalities. Most applications benefit from shallow NVs, enabling higher sensitivity and resolution. However, near surface NVs ($<$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 R. Malkinson , M. K. Kuntumalla , A. Hoffman , N. Bar-Gill

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…

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

State of the art quantum sensing experiments targeting frequency measurements or frequency addressing of nuclear spins require to drive the probe system at the targeted frequency. In addition, there is a substantial advantage to perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Nati Aharon , Ilai Schwartz , Alex Retzker

Many applications of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond crucially rely on a spectrally narrow and stable optical zero-phonon line transition. Though many impressive proof-of-principle experiments have been demonstrated, much work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Albert Liu , Steven T. Cundiff , Diogo B. Almeida , Ronald Ulbricht

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are reliable single-photon emitters, with applications in quantum technologies and metrology. Two charge states are known for NV centers: NV$^0$ and NV$^-$, with the latter being mostly studied due…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-23 Magdalena Solà-Garcia , Sophie Meuret , Toon Coenen , Albert Polman

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers have been demonstrated as a useful tool in high pressure environments. However, the geometry and small working area of the diamond anvil cells (DACs) used to apply pressure present a challenge to effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Timothy A. Elmslie , Luca Basso , Adam Dodson , Jacob Henshaw , Andrew M. Mounce

The fast development of radio-frequency (RF) technologies increases the need for compact, low consumption and broadband real-time RF spectral analyser. To overcome the electronic bottleneck encountered by electronic solutions, which limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Simone Magaletti , Ludovic Mayer , Jean-François Roch , Thierry Debuisschert

Thanks to their versatility, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds have been widely adopted as nanoscale sensors. However, their sensitivities are limited by their short coherence times relative to NVs in bulk diamond. A more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Aedan Gardill , Matthew C. Cambria , Shimon Kolkowitz

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used as ultrasensitive magnetometers to perform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of statistically polarized samples at 1 - 100 nm length scales. However, the spectral linewidth…

A neutral nitrogen-vacancy center (NV$^0$) is promising for realizing strong coupling with a single microwave photon due to its large electric field sensitivity, although it is susceptible to environmental phonon noise at 5 K. Decreasing…

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

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^-$) center in diamond is a model quantum system for university teaching labs due to its room-temperature compatibility and cost-effective operation. Based on the low-cost experimental setup that…

Nanodiamonds containing negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centres (${\text{NV}}^{-}$) have applications as localized sensors in biological material and have been proposed as a platform to probe the macroscopic limits of spatial…

An ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond can act as a precise quantum sensor even under ambient conditions. In particular, to optimize thier sensitivity, it is crucial to increase the number of spins sampled and…