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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

We address that the stray magnetic field emitted by the excited quantum states of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers is spin-momentum locked, such that the spin transfer to nearby ferromagnetic nanostructures is unidirectional. This may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhiping Xue , Ji Zou , Chengyuan Cai , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Tao Yu

The negatively charged nickel vacancy center (NiV$^-$) in diamond is a promising spin qubit candidate with predicted inversion symmetry, large ground state spin orbit splitting to limit phonon-induced decoherence, and emission in the…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are extensively utilized as quantum sensors for imaging fields at the nanoscale. The ultra-high sensitivity of NV magnetometers has enabled the detection and spectroscopy of individual electron…

Quantum emitters, such as the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, are attractive for quantum technologies such as nano-sensing, quantum information processing, and as a non-classical light source. However, it is still…

There is a continuous search for solid-state spin qubits operating at room temperature with excitation in the IR communication bandwidth. Recently we have introduced the photoelectric detection of magnetic resonance (PDMR) to read the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-20 E. Londero , E. Bourgeois , M. Nesladek , A. Gali

We study how topological crystalline defects--dislocations--reshape the real-space quantum geometric tensor and act as tunable sources of quantum geometry. We show that dislocations strongly enhance the quantum metric, establishing a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Carlos Saji , Roberto E. Troncoso

Optically-detected paramagnetic centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as a promising platform for nanoscale metrology at room temperature. Of particular interest are applications where the center is used as a probe to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Abdelghani Laraoui , Daniela Pagliero , Carlos A. Meriles

Solid-state point defects are attracting increasing attention in the field of quantum information science, because their localized states can act as a spin-photon interface in devices that store and transfer quantum information, which have…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely deployed as local magnetic sensors, using coherent, single qubit control to measure both time-averaged fields and noise with nanoscale spatial resolution. Moving beyond single qubits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Jared Rovny , Shimon Kolkowitz , Nathalie P. de Leon

Atomic defects in wide band gap materials show great promise for development of a new generation of quantum information technologies, but have been hampered by the inability to produce and engineer the defects in a controlled way. The…

We present a scheme of positioning a single electron spin with sub-nanometer resolution through multiple nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. With unwanted noise suppressed by dynamical decoupling, the spin coherence of each center develops…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wen-Long Ma , Shu-Shen Li , Geng-Yu Cao , Ren-Bao Liu

We present a theoretical proposal to couple a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center to a superconducting flux qubit (FQ) in the regime where both systems are off resonance. The coupling between both quantum devices is achieved through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Tom Douce , Michael Stern , Nicim Zagury , Patrice Bertet , Pérola Milman

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds provide a room-temperature platform for various emerging quantum technologies, e.g. the long nuclear spin coherence times as potential quantum memory registers. We demonstrate a freezing protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Abhishek Kejriwal , Dasika Shishir , Sumiran Pujari , Kasturi Saha

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile candidates for many quantum information processing tasks, ranging from quantum imaging and sensing through to quantum communication and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Michael Hanks , Michael Trupke , Jörg Schmiedmayer , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are defects in diamonds, which, due to their electronic structure, have been extensively studied as magnetic field sensors. Such field detection applications usually employ the NV centers to detect field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Shonali Dhingra , Brian D'Urso

The electron spin of a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond lends itself to the control of proximal $^{13}$C nuclear spins via dynamical decoupling methods, possibly combined with radio-frequency driving. Long-lived single-qubit states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 W. -R. Hannes , Regina Finsterhoelzl , Guido Burkard

We present theoretical proposals for two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy protocols based on Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are strongly coupled to the target nuclei. Continuous microwave and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Matthias Kost , Jianming Cai , Martin B. Plenio

Emerging quantum technologies require precise control over quantum systems of increasing complexity. Defects in diamond, particularly the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, are a promising platform with the potential to enable…

Defects in solid state materials provide an ideal, robust platform for quantum sensing. To deliver maximum sensitivity, a large ensemble of non-interacting defects hosting coherent quantum states are required. Control of such an ensemble is…