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most citedAvoiding power broadening in optically detected magnetic resonance of single NV defects for enhanced DC-magnetic field sensitivity

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gr-qc2026

Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run

Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546

From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview

F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578

This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486

Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 73 cited

Maskless and targeted creation of arrays of colour centres in diamond using focused ion beam technology

Margarita Lesik, Piernicola Spinicelli, Sébastien Pezzagna +9

The creation of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond is nowadays well controlled using nitrogen implantation and annealing. Although the high-resolution placement of NV centres has…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 168 cited

Stray-field imaging of magnetic vortices with a single diamond spin

L. Rondin, J. P. Tetienne, S. Rohart +5

Despite decades of advances in magnetic imaging, obtaining direct, quantitative information with nanometer scale spatial resolution remains an outstanding challenge. Recently, a ne…

quant-ph2012★ 94 cited

Single-shot readout of multiple nuclear spin qubits in diamond under ambient conditions

A. Dréau, P. Spinicelli, J. R. Maze +2

We use the electronic spin of a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond to observe the real-time evolution of neighboring single nuclear spins under ambient conditions. Usin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 15 cited

Magnetic-field-dependent photodynamics of single NV defects in diamond: Application to qualitative all-optical magnetic imaging

J. -P. Tetienne, L. Rondin, P. Spinicelli +4

Magnetometry and magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond rely on the optical detection of electron spin resonance (ESR). However, this technique is inherentl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 229 cited

Nanoscale magnetic field mapping with a single spin scanning probe magnetometer

L. Rondin, J. -P. Tetienne, P. Spinicelli +7

We demonstrate quantitative magnetic field mapping with nanoscale resolution, by applying a lock-in technique on the electron spin resonance frequency of a single nitrogen-vacancy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 525 cited

Avoiding power broadening in optically detected magnetic resonance of single NV defects for enhanced DC-magnetic field sensitivity

A. Dréau, M. Lesik, L. Rondin +4

We report a systematic study of the magnetic field sensitivity of a magnetic sensor based on a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defect in diamond, by using continuous optically detecte…

quant-ph2010★ 93 cited

Engineered arrays of NV color centers in diamond based on implantation of CN- molecules through nanoapertures

P. Spinicelli, A. Dréau, L. Rondin +9

We report a versatile method to engineer arrays of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in dia- mond at the nanoscale. The defects were produced in parallel by ion implantation thro…