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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide band gap, van der Waals material that is highly promising for solid-state quantum technologies as a host of optically addressable, paramagnetic spin defects. Intrinsic and extrinsic point defects…
We employ a quantum computer to simulate the effect of spin impurities on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. As these defects operate as nanoscale quantum sensors, modeling quantum noise is crucial to identify limitations in…
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Spin ensembles of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are emerging as powerful spin-based sensors for magnetic, electric and thermal field imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here we characterize the formation of…
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The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond is a unique quantum system that offers precision sensing of nanoscale physical quantities beyond the current state-of-the-art. Here we present a method to controllably encode the interactions in…
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The protocols for the control and readout of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centres electron spins in diamond offer an advanced platform for quantum computation, metrology and sensing. These protocols are based on the optical readout of photons…
Negatively charged boron vacancy (VB-) defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising for nanoscale-proximity quantum sensing. To evaluate their performance, it is important to characterize the spin coherence times T2* and T2. In…
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…
The negatively charged boron vacancy in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum sensing. The coherence time of this defect spins which coherent quantum sensing resides in is limited…
We report the detection and polarization of nuclear spins in diamond at room temperature by using a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center. We use Hartmann-Hahn double resonance to coherently enhance the signal from a single nuclear spin while…
We used optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) technique to directly probe electron-spin resonance transitions in the excited state of negatively-charged boron vacancy (VB-) defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) at room…
Understanding the profile of a qubit's wavefunction is key to its quantum applications. Unlike conducting systems, where a scanning tunneling microscope can be used to probe the electron distribution, there is no direct method for…
The diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a leading platform for quantum information science due to its optical addressability and room-temperature spin coherence. However, measurements of the NV center's spin state typically require…