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The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond sensing has been considered to be a promising micro-nano scale thermometer due to its high stability, good temperature resolution and integration. In this work, we fabricated the sensing core by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ke-Chen Ouyang , Zheng Wang , Li Xing , Xiao-Juan Feng , Jin-Tao Zhang , Cheng Ren , Xing-Tuan Yang

Ensembles of nitrogen vacancy centres (NVCs) in diamond can be employed for sensitive magnetometry. In this work we present a fiber-coupled NVC magnetometer with an unshielded sensitivity of (30 $\pm$ 10) pT/$\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}$ in a (10 -…

Temperature sensing with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers using quantum techniques is very promising and further development is expected. Recently, the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectrum of a high-density ensemble of the NV…

We propose a novel quantum sensing protocol that leverages the dynamical response of physical observables to quenches in quantum systems. Specifically, we use the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond to realize both scalar and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Wenkui Ding , Xingyu Zhang , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading platform for practical quantum sensors. Reproducible and scalable fabrication of NV-ensembles with desired properties is crucial. This work addresses these challenges by…

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…

We demonstrate vector magnetometry with an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond without the need for an external bias field. The anisotropy of the electric dipole moments of the NV center reduces the ambiguity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Franz Münzhuber , Johannes Kleinlein , Tobias Kiessling , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We demonstrate $4\pi$-steradian vector magnetic field sensing using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond coupled to a microwave (MW) cavity. The MW cavity enhances the spin-photon coupling which enables…

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center (NV) presents remarkable spin-dependent optical properties that make it an interesting tool for magnetic field sensing. In this paper we exploit the polarization properties of the NV center…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Simone Magaletti , Ludovic Mayer , Xuan Phuc Le , Thierry Debuisschert

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, optically active atomic defects in diamond, have been widely applied to emerging quantum sensing, imaging, and network efforts, showing unprecedented field sensitivity and nanoscale spatial resolution. Many of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Eric Lee-Wong , Jinjun Ding , Xiaoche Wang , Chuanpu Liu , Nathan J. McLaughlin , Hailong Wang , Mingzhong Wu , Chunhui Rita Du

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…

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…

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…

Nitrogen-vacancy quantum defects in diamond offer a promising platform for magnetometry because of their remarkable optical and spin properties. In this Letter, we present a high-sensitivity and wide-bandwidth fiber-based quantum…

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are a highly promising platform for high-sensitivity magnetometry, whose efficacy is often based on efficiently generating and monitoring magnetic-field dependent infrared fluorescence. Here…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has enabled studies of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance with high sensitivity in small sample volumes. Most NV-detected NMR (NV-NMR) experiments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yuhang Ren , Cooper Selco , Dylan Kawashiri , Michael Coumans , Benjamin Fortman , Louis S. Bouchard , Karoly Holczer , Susumu Takahashi

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

We present a technique that uses an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to image magnetic fields with high spatio-temporal resolution and sensitivity. A focused laser beam is raster-scanned using an acousto-optic deflector…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is the prototype quantum defect that enables a variety of diamond-based quantum technologies. However, charge-state instability and spectral diffusion, often induced by substitutional nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Chandan Kumar Vishwakarma , J. K. Nangoi , Mark E. Turiansky , Chris G. Van de Walle

One of the biggest challenges to implement quantum protocols and quantum information processing (QIP) is achieving long coherence times, usually requiring systems at ultra-low temperatures. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a…