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20192025
most citedPicotesla magnetometry of microwave fields with diamond sensors

98 citations · 301 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Quantum relaxometry for detecting biomolecular interactions with single NV centers

Min Li, Qi Zhang, Xi Kong +14

The investigation of biomolecular interactions at the single-molecule level has emerged as a pivotal research area in life science, particularly through optical, mechanical, and el…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Room-temperature hybrid 2D-3D quantum spin system for enhanced magnetic sensing and many-body dynamics

Haoyu Sun, Pei Yu, Xu Zhou +10

Advances in hybrid quantum systems and their precise control are pivotal for developing advanced quantum technologies. Two-dimensional (2D) materials with optically accessible spin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Oxygen-vacancy quantum spin defects in silicon carbide

Yu Chen, Qi Zhang, Mingzhe Liu +11

Optically addressable spin defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors are promising building blocks for quantum sensing and quantum networks. Establishing their atomic structure is ess…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Discovery of an anomalous non-evaporating sub-nanometre water layer in open environment

Zhijie Li, Xi Kong, Haoyu Sun +8

Water exhibits complex behaviors as a result of hydrogen bonding, and low-dimensional confined water plays a key role in material science, geology, and biology science. Conventiona…

hep-ex2024

New Constraints on Exotic Spin-Spin-Velocity-Dependent Interactions with Solid-State Quantum Sensors

Yue Huang, Hang Liang, Man Jiao +8

We report new experimental results on exotic spin-spin-velocity-dependent interactions between electron spins. We designed an elaborate setup that is equipped with two nitrogen-vac…

quant-ph2024

Correlated sensing with a solid-state quantum multi-sensor system for atomic-scale structural analysis

Wentao Ji, Zhaoxin Liu, Yuhang Guo +10

Developing superior quantum sensing strategies ranging from ultra-high precision measurement to complex structural analysis is at the heart of quantum technologies. While strategie…

physics.app-ph2023

Imaging magnetism evolution of magnetite to megabar pressure range with quantum sensors in diamond anvil cell

Mengqi Wang, Yu Wang, Zhixian Liu +9

High-pressure diamond anvil cells have been widely used to create novel states of matter. Nevertheless, the lack of universal in-situ magnetic measurement techniques at megabar pre…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Sensing orbital hybridization of graphene-diamond interface with a single spin

Yucheng Hao, Zhiping Yang, Zeyu Li +13

Interfacial interactions are crucial in a variety of fields and can greatly affect the electric, magnetic, and chemical properties of materials. Among them, interface orbital hybri…

quant-ph2022

Temperature-dependent behaviors of single spin defects in solids determined with Hz-level precision

Shaoyi Xu, Mingzhe Liu, Tianyu Xie +6

Revealing the properties of single spin defects in solids is essential for quantum applications based on solid-state systems. However, it is intractable to investigate the temperat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Observation of uniaxial strain tuned spin cycloid in a freestanding BiFeO3 film

Zhe Ding, Yumeng Sun, Ningchong Zheng +10

Non-collinear spin order that breaks space inversion symmetry and allows efficient electric-field control of magnetism makes BiFeO a promising candidate for applications in low…

quant-ph2022★ 98 cited

Picotesla magnetometry of microwave fields with diamond sensors

Zhecheng Wang, Fei Kong, Pengju Zhao +5

Developing robust microwave-field sensors is both fundamentally and practically important with a wide range of applications from astronomy to communication engineering. The Nitroge…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Sub-nanotesla Sensitivity at the Nanoscale with a Single Spin

Zhiyuan Zhao, Xiangyu Ye, Shaoyi Xu +7

High-sensitivity detection of microscopic magnetic field is essential in many fields. Good sensitivity and high spatial resolution are mutually contradictory in measurement, which…

physics.app-ph2022

Self-aligned patterning technique for fabricating high-performance diamond sensor arrays with nanoscale precision

Mengqi Wang, Haoyu Sun, Xiangyu Ye +7

To efficiently align the creation of defect center with photonics structure in nanoscale precision is one of the outstanding challenges for realizing high-performance photonic devi…

quant-ph2022

Experimental Constraints on Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions by a Magnetometer with Ensembles of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Hang Liang, Man Jiao, Yue Huang +7

Improved constraints on exotic spin-dependent interactions are established at the micrometer scale by a magnetometer with ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. A t…

quant-ph2021★ 41 cited

Excited-state spectroscopy of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Pei Yu, Haoyu Sun, Mengqi Wang +8

We used optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) technique to directly probe electron-spin resonance transitions in the excited state of negatively-charged boron vacancy (VB-)…

quant-ph2021★ 58 cited

Beating the Standard Quantum Limit under Ambient Conditions with Solid-State Spins

Tianyu Xie, Zhiyuan Zhao, Xi Kong +10

Precision measurement plays a crucial role in all fields of science. The use of entangled sensors in quantum metrology improves the precision limit from the standard quantum limit…

quant-ph2020★ 6 cited

Super-resolution Localization of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond with Quantum Controlled Photoswitching

Pengfei Wang, You Huang, Maosen Guo +7

We demonstrate the super-resolution localization of the nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond by a novel fluorescence photoswitching technique based on coherent quantum control. The…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Kilohertz electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of single nitrogen centers at zero magnetic field

Fei Kong, Pengju Zhao, Pei Yu +6

Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR) is among the most important analytical tools in physics, chemistry, and biology. The emergence of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers i…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Room-temperature coherent control of implanted defect spins in silicon carbide

Fei-Fei Yan, Ai-Lun Yi, Jun-Feng Wang +9

Recently, vacancy-related spin defects in silicon carbide (SiC) have been demonstrated to be potentially suitable for versatile quantum interface building and scalable quantum netw…

quant-ph2020★ 41 cited

Nanoscale zero-field electron spin resonance spectroscopy

Fei Kong, Pengju Zhao, Xiangyu Ye +6

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has broad applications in physics, chemistry and biology. As a complementary tool, zero-field ESR (ZF-ESR) spectroscopy has been proposed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 31 cited

Experimental observation of dynamical bulk-surface correspondence for topological phases

Ya Wang, Wentao Ji, Zihua Chai +12

We experimentally demonstrate a dynamical classification approach for investigation of topological quantum phases using a solid-state spin system through nitrogen-vacancy (NV) cent…

quant-ph2019★ 2 cited

Structural analysis of nuclear spin clusters via two-dimensional nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Zhiping Yang, Xi Kong, Zhijie Li +9

Two-dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is essential in molecular structure determination. The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been proposed and developed as a…