All-Optical Nuclear Quantum Sensing using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
arXiv:2212.07093 · doi:10.1038/s41534-023-00724-6
Abstract
Solid state spins have demonstrated significant potential in quantum sensing with applications including fundamental science, medical diagnostics and navigation. The quantum sensing schemes showing best performance under ambient conditions all utilize microwave or radio-frequency driving, which poses a significant limitation for miniaturization, energy-efficiency and non-invasiveness of quantum sensors. We overcome this limitation by demonstrating a purely optical approach to coherent quantum sensing. Our scheme involves the N nuclear spin of the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond as a sensing resource, and exploits NV spin dynamics in oblique magnetic fields near the NV's excited state level anti-crossing to optically pump the nuclear spin into a quantum superposition state. We demonstrate all-optical free-induction decay measurements - the key protocol for low-frequency quantum sensing - both on single spins and spin ensembles. Our results pave the way for highly compact quantum sensors to be employed for magnetometry or gyroscopy applications in challenging environments.
arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures, plus supplementary material. Questions and comments are welcome
References in corpus (34)
- Quantum sensing
- The nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond
- High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution
- Optical Magnetometry
- Sensing electric fields using single diamond spins
- Sensitivity Optimization for NV-Diamond Magnetometry
- Solid-state electronic spin coherence time approaching one second
- Temperature dependence of the nitrogen-vacancy magnetic resonance in diamond
- Realization of a multi-node quantum network of remote solid-state qubits
- Optical magnetic detection of single-neuron action potentials using quantum defects in diamond
- Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
- Dynamic polarization of single nuclear spins by optical pumping of NV color centers in diamond at room temperature
- Efficient readout of a single spin state in diamond via spin-to-charge conversion
- Micrometer-scale Magnetic Imaging of Geological Samples Using a Quantum Diamond Microscope
- Universal enhancement of the optical readout fidelity of single electron spins
- Stable Three-Axis Nuclear Spin Gyroscope in Diamond
- Gyroscopes based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
- Microwave-free magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
- Diamond magnetometry and gradiometry towards subpicotesla DC field measurement
- Nonvolatile quantum memory enables sensor unlimited nanoscale spectroscopy of finite quantum systems
- Initialization and Readout of Nuclear Spins via negatively charged Silicon-Vacancy Center in Diamond
- Sub-nanotesla magnetometry with a fibre-coupled diamond sensor
- Microwave-free vector magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers along a single axis in diamond
- Demonstration of diamond nuclear spin gyroscope
- Wide-band, nanoscale magnetic resonance spectroscopy using quantum relaxation of a single spin in diamond
- Measuring nanoscale magnetic write head fields using a hybrid quantum register
- Measurement of transverse hyperfine interaction by forbidden transitions
- Parabolic diamond scanning probes for single spin magnetic field imaging
- Amplified Sensitivity of Nitrogen-Vacancy Spins in Nanodiamonds using All-Optical Charge Readout
- High-Field Magnetometry with Hyperpolarized Nuclear Spins
- Hyperfine-Enhanced Gyromagnetic Ratio of a Nuclear Spin in Diamond
- Robust optical readout and characterization of nuclear spin transitions in nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond
- Vector magnetic field sensing by single nitrogen vacancy center in diamond
- High precision single qubit tuning via thermo-magnetic field control
Cited by in corpus (5)
- Fabrication of oriented NV center arrays in diamond via femtosecond laser writing and reorientation
- Designing metasurface optical interfaces for solid-state qubits using many-body adjoint shape optimization
- Dynamical nuclear polarization for dissipation-induced entanglement in NV centers
- Crystal Fields and Zeeman Effect for Thulium in Solid Argon
- Efficiency of optimal control for noisy spin qubits in diamond