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Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used as ultrasensitive magnetometers to perform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of statistically polarized samples at 1 - 100 nm length scales. However, the spectral linewidth…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) based quantum sensors hold great potential for real-time single-cell sensing with far-reaching applications in fundamental biology and medical diagnostics. Although highly sensitive, the mapping of quantum measurements…

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy provides unparalleled access to molecular structure and dynamics but is traditionally limited by weak signal strength, requiring large sample volumes and high magnetic fields. Here, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dileep Singh , Riley W. Hooper , Christoph Findler , Utsab Banerjee , Dominik B. Bucher

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

The confluence of quantum physics and biology is driving a new generation of quantum-based sensing and imaging technology capable of harnessing the power of quantum effects to provide tools to understand the fundamental processes of life.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Maclaurin , L. T. Hall , A. M. Martin , L. C. L. Hollenberg

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

Recent advances in engineering and control of nanoscale quantum sensors have opened new paradigms in precision metrology. Unfortunately, hardware restrictions often limit the sensor performance. In nanoscale magnetic resonance probes, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 A. Ajoy , Y. X. Liu , K. Saha , L. Marseglia , J. -C. Jaskula , U. Bissbort , P. Cappellaro

Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers in diamond are among the most promising quantum sensors, offering high sensitivity and nanoscale spatial resolution. These systems are, however, prone to decoherence due to coupling with surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-19 Arsineh Apelian , Mariya Romanova , Vojtech Vlcek

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

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

Megabar pressures are of crucial importance for cutting-edge studies of condensed matter physics and geophysics. With the development of diamond anvil cell, laboratory studies of high pressure have entered the megabar era for decades.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jian-Hong Dai , Yan-Xing Shang , Yong-Hong Yu , Yue Xu , Hui Yu , Fang Hong , Xiao-Hui Yu , Xin-Yu Pan , Gang-Qin Liu

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have emerged as highly versatile optical emitters that exhibit room temperature spin properties. These characteristics make NV centers ideal for magnetometry, which plays an important role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kangmook Lim , Chad Ropp , Benjamin Shapiro , Jacob M. Taylor , Edo Waks

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state spin defect that has been widely adopted for quantum sensing and quantum information processing applications. Typically, experiments are performed either with a single isolated NV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Matthew Cambria , Saroj Chand , Caitlin Reiter , Shimon Kolkowitz

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…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted considerable interest in sensing of weak magnetic fields, such as those created by biological systems. Detecting such feeble signals requires near-surface NV centers, to reduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 R. Giri , C. Dorigoni , S. Tambalo , F. Gorrini , A. Bifone

Characterization of the molecular properties of surfaces under ambient or chemically reactive conditions is a fundamental scientific challenge. Moreover, many traditional analytical techniques used for probing surfaces often lack dynamic or…

Nitrogen-vacancy centers are spatially resolved probes of current noise. So far, current noise sensing with NV centers has primarily been used as a way to probe equilibrium transport coefficients. We develop a framework for computing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yifan Zhang , Rhine Samajdar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

In drug discovery research there is a clear and urgent need for non-invasive detection of cell membrane ion channel operation with wide-field capability. Existing techniques are generally invasive, require specialized nano structures, or…

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in fields ranging from chemistry, material science to neuroscience. Nanoscale NMR spectroscopy using Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has emerged as a promising platform…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond exists in different charge states with distinct photoluminescence properties, which are sensitive to the nanoscale electrochemical environment. Hence, the NV charge state is emerging as a powerful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Patrick Voorhoeve , Hiroshi Abe , Takeshi Ohshima , Qiang Sun , Anita Quigley , Rob Kapsa , Nikolai Dontschuk , Philipp Reineck