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Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond are among the leading solid state quantum platforms, offering exceptional spatial resolution and sensitivity for applications such as magnetic field sensing, thermometry, and bioimaging. However, in high…

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Precision sensing and imaging of weak static magnetic fields are crucial for a variety of emerging nanoscale applications. While nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond provide exceptional AC magnetic field sensitivity with nanoscale…

Magnetometers based on quantum mechanical processes enable high sensitivity and long-term stability without the need for re-calibration, but their integration into fieldable devices remains challenging. This paper presents a CMOS quantum…

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Owing to the unique electronic spin properties, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers hosted in diamond have emerged as a powerful quantum sensor for various physical parameters and biological species. In this work, a miniature optical-fiber…

Magnetic sensing technology has found widespread application in industries as diverse as transportation, medicine, and resource exploration. Such use cases often require highly sensitive instruments to measure the extremely small magnetic…

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…

Quantum sensors based on the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond are leading platforms for high-sensitivity magnetometry with nanometer-scale resolution. State-of-the-art implementations, however, typically rely on bulky free-space…

Diamond containing the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is emerging as a significant new system for magnetometry. However, most NV sensors require microscopes to collect the fluorescence signals and are therefore limited to…

Diamond's nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is an optically active defect with long spin coherence times, showing great potential for both efficient nanoscale magnetometry and quantum information processing schemes. Recently, both the formation…

The confluence of quantum physics and biology is driving a new generation of quantum-based sensing and imaging technology capable of harnessing the power of quantum effects to provide tools to understand the fundamental processes of life.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Maclaurin , L. T. Hall , A. M. Martin , L. C. L. Hollenberg

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

The performance of solid-state quantum sensors based on electronic spin defects is often limited by the presence of environmental spin impurities that cause decoherence. A promising approach to improve these quantum sensors is to convert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Alexandre Cooper , Won Kyu Calvin Sun , Jean-Christophe Jaskula , Paola Cappellaro

Sensing of signals from biological processes, such as action potential propagation in nerves, are essential for clinical diagnosis and basic understanding of physiology. Sensing can be performed electrically by placing sensor probes near or…

We demonstrate a cavity-enhanced room-temperature magnetic field sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Magnetic resonance is detected using absorption of light resonant with the 1042 nm spin-singlet transition. The diamond is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Jensen , N. Leefer , A. Jarmola , Y. Dumeige , V. M. Acosta , P. Kehayias , B. Patton , D. Budker

We demonstrate a magnetometry technique using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond which makes use of coherent two-photon transitions. We find that the sensitivity to magnetic fields can be significantly improved in isotopically purified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 A. Angerer , T. Nöbauer , G. Wachter , M. Markham , A. Stacey , J. Majer , J. Schmiedmayer , M. Trupke

Quantum sensing exploits the strong sensitivity of quantum systems to measure small external signals. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is one of the most promising platforms for real-world quantum sensing applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Ziwei Qiu , Uri Vool , Assaf Hamo , Amir Yacoby

Quantum sensors based on optically active defects in diamond such as the nitrogen vacancy (NV) centre represent a promising platform for nanoscale sensing and imaging of magnetic, electric, temperature and strain fields. Enhancing the…

Quantum sensing has seen rapid progress from laboratory research to real-world applications. Solid-state spin systems, particularly nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, are attractive for their ability to operate at room temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jonathan Kenny , Feifei Zhou , Ruihua He , Fedor Jelezko , Teck Seng Koh , Weibo Gao

The isolated electronic spin system of the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centre in diamond offers unique possibilities to be employed as a nanoscale sensor for detection and imaging of weak magnetic fields. Magnetic imaging with nanometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 L. Rondin , J. -P. Tetienne , T. Hingant , J. -F. Roch , P. Maletinsky , V. Jacques

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have emerged as highly versatile optical emitters that exhibit room temperature spin properties. These characteristics make NV centers ideal for magnetometry, which plays an important role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kangmook Lim , Chad Ropp , Benjamin Shapiro , Jacob M. Taylor , Edo Waks