scholarly journals Zero-field magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijie Zheng ◽  
Jingyan Xu ◽  
Geoffrey Z. Iwata ◽  
Till Lenz ◽  
Julia Michl ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijie Zheng ◽  
Jingyan Xu ◽  
Geoffrey Z. Iwata ◽  
Till Lenz ◽  
Julia Michl ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Pinto ◽  
Domenico Paone ◽  
Bastian Kern ◽  
Tim Dierker ◽  
René Wieczorek ◽  
...  

AbstractAtomic spins for quantum technologies need to be individually addressed and positioned with nanoscale precision. C60 fullerene cages offer a robust packaging for atomic spins, while allowing in-situ physical positioning at the nanoscale. However, achieving single-spin level readout and control of endofullerenes has so far remained elusive. In this work, we demonstrate electron paramagnetic resonance on an encapsulated nitrogen spin (14N@C60) within a C60 matrix using a single near-surface nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond at 4.7 K. Exploiting the strong magnetic dipolar interaction between the NV and endofullerene electronic spins, we demonstrate radio-frequency pulse controlled Rabi oscillations and measure spin-echos on an encapsulated spin. Modeling the results using second-order perturbation theory reveals an enhanced hyperfine interaction and zero-field splitting, possibly caused by surface adsorption on diamond. These results demonstrate the first step towards controlling single endofullerenes, and possibly building large-scale endofullerene quantum machines, which can be scaled using standard positioning or self-assembly methods.


Author(s):  
Till Lenz ◽  
Arne Wickenbrock ◽  
Fedor Jelezko ◽  
Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian ◽  
Dmitry Budker

2013 ◽  
Vol 740-742 ◽  
pp. 425-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.G. Baranov ◽  
Victor A. Soltamov ◽  
Alexandra A. Soltamova ◽  
Georgy V. Astakhov ◽  
Vladimir D. Dyakonov

The unique quantum properties of the nitrogen–vacancy (NV) center in diamond have motivated efforts to find defects with similar properties in silicon carbide (SiC), which can extend the functionality of such systems not available to the diamond. As an example, results of experiments on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) are presented suggests that silicon vacancy (VSi) related point defects in SiC possess properties the similar to those of the NV center in diamond, which in turn make them a promising quantum system for single-defect and single-photon spectroscopy in the infrared region. Depending on the defect type, temperature, SiC polytype, and crystalline position, two opposite schemes have been observed for the optical alignment of the high-spin ground state spin sublevels population of the VSi-related defects upon irradiation with unpolorized light. Spin ensemble of VSi-related defects are shown to be prepared in a coherent superposition of the spin states even at room temperature. Zero-field (ZF) ODMR shows the possibility to manipulate of the ground state spin population by applying radiofrequency field. These altogether make VSi-related defects in SiC very favorable candidate for spintronics, quantum information processing, and magnetometry.


Author(s):  
Z. L. Wang ◽  
C. L. Briant ◽  
J. DeLuca ◽  
A. Goyal ◽  
D. M. Kroeger ◽  
...  

Recent studies have shown that spray-pyrolyzed films of the Tl-1223 compound (TlxBa2Ca2Cu3Oy, with 0.7 < × < 0.95) on polycrystalline yttrium stabilized zirconia substrates can be prepared which have critical current density Jc near 105 A/cm2 at 77 K, in zero field. The films are polycrystalline, have excellent c-axis alignment, and show little evidence of weak-link behavior. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies have shown that most grain boundaries have small misorientation angles. It has been found that the films have a nigh degree of local texture indicative of colonies of similarly oriented grains. It is believed that inter-colony conduction is enhanced by a percolative network of small angle boundaries at colony interfaces. It has also been found that Jc is increased by a factor of 4 - 5 after the films were annealed at 600 °C in oxygen. This study is thus carried out to determine the effect on grain boundary chemistry of the heat treatment.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlia Mayans ◽  
Albert Escuer

A possible relation between the value of the axial Zero Field Splitting and the occurrence of field-induced slow magnetic relaxation has been established for a new gadolinium(iii) compound.


1979 ◽  
Vol 40 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-335-C1-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Carmeliet ◽  
J. C. Dehaes ◽  
W. Singer

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