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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"NV center"”.
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Development of a platform for sensing cellular electrical activity using nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamonds
The nitrogen vacancy center (NV) in diamond hosts unique optical properties that allows it to be used for sensing magnetic fields, electric fields, and temperature. In addition, the photostability of the NV center and the biocompatibility of diamond suggests the utility of the NV center for …
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NV diamond project for nEDM
… the research conducted on Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) defects in diamonds for the nEDM experiment which has an operating temperature of 0.5 K. NV defects have been investigated as metrological sensors for measuring both, electric and magnetic fields at room temperature and also at 4 K. This thesis …
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Optical and spin properties of nitrogen vacancy centers in bulk and nanocrystalline diamond
The NV center is becoming a very hot topic in many areas of science, including, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Quantum Information. The Degen group has focused on a specific application of the NV center, namely scanning magnetometry. In my time in the group, I focused on building a microscope and …
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Exploring quantum geometry and quantum sensing with spin defects in diamond
… spin defects, such as nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, have attracted a lot of attentions thanks to their good controllability and long coherence time even at room temperature. In this thesis, we present our efforts in demonstrating promising quantum applications based on the NV …
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Frequency down-conversion for quantum networking with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) devices are critical to building long-distance quantum networks, which would connect quantum memories located at distant nodes through optical channels for efficient entanglement distribution. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an attractive candidate …
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Optimizing chemical-vapor-deposition diamond for nitrogen-vacancy center ensemble magnetometry
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has emerged as a promising platform for high-sensitivity, vector magnetic field detection and high spatial resolution magnetic-field imaging due to its unique combination of optical and spin properties. NV diamond magnetometry has enabled a wide array of …
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Dynamics of Spin and Charge of Color Centers in Diamond under Cryogenic Conditions
… science. Most notably, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond features a defect deep within the electronic bandgap, making it amenable for precise manipulation to help pave the way to perform fundamental quantum physics experimentation. The NV center also offers long coherence times and …
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Building efficient light-matter interfaces for quantum systems
… such as quantum dots (QDs) and nitrogen vacancy (NVs) centers in diamond, is essential for various quantum technologies. This thesis describes the design, fabrication, and utilization of novel photonic structures and systems to achieve potentially world-record photon collection from quantum dots. …
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A Vertically Loaded Diamond Microdisk Resonator (VLDMoRt) towards a Scalable Quantum Networks
… (VLDMoRt). It couples to a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond for efficient collection of fluorescence emission into low numerical aperture (NA) free-space modes. The VLDMoRt achieves a Purcell enhancement of 172 with 39% of the emitted light collected within a NA of 0.6, leading to a …
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Digital Twin Modeling for NV Magnetometry
… twin modeling framework for nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center-based magnetometry, advancing the field of quantum sensing. A surrogate model serves as a computational representation of the physical NV magnetometer system, enabling comprehensive exploration of parameter spaces to optimize device …
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Custom built atomic force microscope for nitrogen-vacancy diamond magnetometry
The nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamonds have the potential to be an ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensor that is capable of detecting single spins. Implementing this sensor for general and nontransparent samples is not trivial. For N-V centers to be a useful probe, a way of positioning the …
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All-optical method of nanoscale magnetometry for ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond
The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond has shown considerable promise in the field of small scale magnetometry due to its high localization and retention of favorable optical properties at ambient conditions. Current methods of magnetometry with the NV center achieve high sensitivity to fields …
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Scaling up a quantum register of dark electronic spins in diamond
Electronic spin defects in the environment of an optically-active spin can be used to increase the size and hence the performance of solid-state quantum registers, especially for applications in quantum metrology and quantum communication. Previous works on multi-qubit electronic-spin registers in …
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Diamond nanophotonic devices for quantum information processing and sensing
The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond has in recent years emerged as a promising solid state system for quantum information processing and sensing applications. However, using NV centers to build up quantum networks for these applications faces several challenges, such as the lack of …
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Towards quantum information processing with diamond color centers
… quantum systems, the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond. The NV has emerged as an excellent quantum sensor, in which quantum logic techniques can significantly improve performance. However, a remaining problem concerns the rate and fidelity of NV spin measurement. To address this …
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Coherent control of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond nanostructures for quantum sensing and networking
… of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond have led to numerous applications ranging from super-resolution imaging to the exploration of previously untested new phenomena using quantum entanglement for information processing and sensing. The solid-state environment of …
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Nanodiamonds for biological applications: Synthesis by laser ablation and sensing of local magnetic environment by optical spectroscopy of NV centers
Nanodiamonds (NDs) are the subject of intense investigation for their unique physical and chemical properties. Due to high hardness, optical transparency and biocompatibility, NDs find applications in tribology, catalysis and drug delivery. When enriched with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, NDs can …
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High-Sensitivity Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Magnetometry: from DC to GHz
… of magnetic fields using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles in diamond has matured into an established discipline, with several proof of principle demonstrations in condensed matter physics, biological systems, electronics testing, and geomagnetism. However, despite the prospect of …
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Dynamic and geometric control of electronic spins in diamond for quantum sensing and quantum information science
In recent years, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond, electronic spin defects embedded in a solid-state system, has emerged as a promising platform for quantum sensing and quantum information science in ambient temperature. Its capability of robust but high-precision spin control …
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Quantum control of spin systems in diamond
… quantum system is inevitably coupled to its environment. The interaction with its surroundings irrevocably destroys the quantum nature of the system: mitigating decoherence is thus one of the central problems in quantum control. In this thesis, we develop novel control methods to protect a …
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