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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

Quantum sensors based on Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are highly capable of sensing multiple physical quantities. In this study, we use amplitude-modulated lock-in detection of optically detected magnetic resonance of NV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Sonia Sarkar , Namita Agrawal , Dasika Shishir , Kasturi Saha

Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is the representative solid state defect qubit for quantum information science, offering long coherence time at room temperature. To achieve high sensitivity and spatial resolution,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Pei Li , Guanjian Hu , Xiao Yu , Bing Huang , Song Li

Developing robust microwave-field sensors is both fundamentally and practically important with a wide range of applications from astronomy to communication engineering. The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an attractive candidate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Zhecheng Wang , Fei Kong , Pengju Zhao , Zhehuang Huang , Pei Yu , Ya Wang , Fazhan Shi , Jiangfeng Du

We demonstrate a highly sensitive real-time magnetometry method at two measurement points. This magnetometry method is based on the frequency-division multiplexing of continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance. We use two…

In this study, we developed a diamond quantum magnetometer based on Ramsey interferometry with a short sensor-to-sample distance. Conventional biomagnetic sensors with ensemble nitrogen-vacancy centers using continuous-wave optically…

The sensitivity of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond-based magnetometers strongly depends on the number of NV centers involved in the measurement. Unfortunately, an increasing concentration of NV centers leads to decreases…

Engineering shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond holds the key to unlocking new advances in nanoscale quantum sensing. We find that the creation of near-surface NVs through delta doping during diamond growth allows for tunable…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable spin defects with great potential for nanoscale quantum sensing. A key application of NV centers is the detection of external spins at the diamond surface. Among metals,…

The ability to measure magnetic fields on the nanometre scale at cryogenic temperatures is key to understand magnetism on the quantum level and to develop materials for new storage devices or quantum computers. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres…

Quantum sensing using optically addressable atomic-scale defects, such as the nitrogen--vacancy (NV) center in diamond, provides new opportunities for sensitive and highly localized characterization of chemical functionality. Notably,…

Detecting individual spins--including stable and metastable states--represents a fundamental challenge in quantum sensing with broad applications across condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and single-molecule magnetic resonance…

Camera-based wide-field quantum noise spectroscopy (QNS) with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spins in diamond can be used to extract DC and AC magnetic field noise with sub-micrometer spatial resolution, but its realization is currently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jiahui Chen , Qilong Wu , Huihui Yu , Yi-Dan Qu , Yuan Zhang , Xun Yang , Chong-Xin Shan

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

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers show great potentials for nanoscale bio-sensing and bio-imaging. Nevertheless, their envisioned bio-applications suffer from intrinsic background noise due to unavoidable light scattering and autofluorescence…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-05 Yayin Tan , Xiaolu Wang , Feng Xu , Xinhao Hu , Yuan Lin , Bo Gao , Zhiqin Chu

Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising for nano-magnetometry for they can be placed proximate to targets. To study the intrinsic magnetic properties, zero-field magnetometry is desirable. However, for shallow NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ning Wang , Chu-Feng Liu , Jing-Wei Fan , Xi Feng , Weng-Hang Leong , Amit Finkler , Andrej Denisenko , Jörg Wrachtrup , Quan Li , Ren-Bao Liu

The negatively-charged nitrogen vacancy (NV$^{-}$) center in diamond is widely used for quantum sensing since the sensitivity of the spin triplet in the electronic ground state to external perturbations such as strain and electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Ali Tayefeh Younesi , Muhib Omar , Arne Wickenbrock , Dmitry Budker , Ronald Ulbricht

We report a cavity-enabled solid-state magnetometer based on an NV ensemble coupled with a dielectric cavity, achieving 12 pT/$\sqrt{\rm{Hz}}$ sensitivity and a nearly threefold gain from multispectral features. The features originate from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Himanshu Kumar , Rahul Gupta , Saikat Ghosh , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Kasturi Saha

The core issue for the implementation of the diamond NV centre qubits technology is the sensitive readout of NV spin state. We have recently demonstrated the photoelectric detection of NV magnetic resonances (PDMR), anticipated to be faster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 E. Bourgeois , E. Londero , K. Buczak , Y. Balasubramaniam , G. Wachter , J. Stursa , K. Dobes , F. Aumayr , M. Trupke , A. Gali , M. Nesladek

We created dense ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers in diamond by neutron and electron irradiation for applications in hybrid quantum systems and magnetometry. We characterize fluorescence intensity, optical and…