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The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centre in diamond has many exciting applications in quantum nano-metrology, including magnetometry, electrometry, thermometry and piezometry. Indeed, it is possible for a single NV- centre to…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum sensor with remarkably versatile sensing capabilities. While scanning NV magnetometry is well-established, NV electrometry has been so far limited to bulk diamonds. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ziwei Qiu , Assaf Hamo , Uri Vool , Tony X. Zhou , Amir Yacoby

Solid state spins in diamond, in particular negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV), are leading contenders in the field of quantum sensing. While addressing of single NVs offers nanoscale spatial resolution, many implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yuchun Zhu , Elena Losero , Christophe Galland , Valentin Goblot

Detection of AC magnetic fields at the nanoscale is critical in applications ranging from fundamental physics to materials science. Isolated quantum spin defects, such as the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, can achieve the desired…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Guoqing Wang , Yi-Xiang Liu , Yuan Zhu , Paola Cappellaro

The spin readout of an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be realized by a photoconductive detection that is a complementary method to the optical detection of the NV electron spin magnetic resonance. Here, we…

We describe here the construction and characterization of a high-resolution optical magnetometer to measure the full vector magnetic field on an ultrathin layer near the surface of the device. This solid-state device is based on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Charlie Oncebay Segura , Sérgio Ricardo Muniz

Widefield magnetic imaging using ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond has emerged as a useful technique for studying the microscopic magnetic properties of materials. Thus far, this technique has mainly been implemented on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Alex Shaji , David A. Broadway , Philipp Reineck , Kevin J. Rietwyk , Jean-Philippe Tetienne

We present a novel approach to the detection of weak magnetic fields that takes advantage of recently developed techniques for the coherent control of solid-state electron spin quantum bits. Specifically, we investigate a magnetic sensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Taylor , P. Cappellaro , L. Childress , L. Jiang , D. Budker , P. R. Hemmer , A. Yacoby , R. Walsworth , M. D. Lukin

We introduce a microwave-assisted spectroscopy technique to determine the relative concentrations of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are negatively-charged (NV${}^-$) and neutrally-charged (NV${}^0$), and present its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 D. P. L. Aude Craik , P. Kehayias , A. S. Greenspon , X. Zhang , M. J. Turner , J. M. Schloss , E. Bauch , C. A. Hart , E. L. Hu , R. L. Walsworth

The magnetic fields generated by spins and currents provide a unique window into the physics of correlated-electron materials and devices. Proposed only a decade ago, magnetometry based on the electron spin of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Francesco Casola , Toeno van der Sar , Amir Yacoby

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for quantum sensing technologies. Here, we present a fully integrated and mechanically robust fiber-based endoscopic sensor with a tip diameter of $1.25 \mathrm{mm}$. On its…

In this work we present a compact and portable tabletop magnetometer that utilizes negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The magnetometer is operated using a dual microwave resonance detection approach in combination…

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds are widely utilized for magnetometry, magnetic-field imaging and magnetic-resonance detection. They have not been used for magnetometry at zero ambient field because Zeeman sublevels…

In recent years, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have become excellent solid-state quantum sensors due to their electronic spin properties. Especially for their easy optical initialization and detection, together with their…

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have useful properties for detecting both AC and DC magnetic fields with high sensitivity at nano-scale resolution. Vector detection of AC magnetic fields can be achieved by using NV centers having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Pooja Lamba , Akshat Rana , Sougata Halder , Siddharth Dhomkar , Dieter Suter , Rama K. Kamineni

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

Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamond is becoming an established tool for studying nanoscale physics in condensed matter systems. However, the optical access required for NV spin readout remains an important hurdle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Yufan Li , Fabian A. Gerritsma , Samer Kurdi , Nina Codreanu , Simon Gröblacher , Ronald Hanson , Richard Norte , Toeno van der Sar

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer a sensitive method of measuring the spatially localized dynamics of magnetization and associated spin textures in ferromagnetic materials. We use NV centers in a deterministically positioned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Jeffrey Rable , Jyotirmay Dwivedi , Nitin Samarth

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds have emerged as a promising quantum sensing platform for biomedical imaging applications, yet random orientations of individual particles present significant challenges in large-scale sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yizhou Wang , Haochen Shen , Zhongyuan Liu , Yue Yu , Shengwang Du , Chong Zu , Chuanwei Zhang

An ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond can act as a precise quantum sensor even under ambient conditions. In particular, to optimize thier sensitivity, it is crucial to increase the number of spins sampled and…