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most citedSingle-molecule Scale Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

133 citations · 959 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

physics.app-ph2026

Stringent Constraints on Spin-Spin-Velocity-Dependent Exotic Interactions with a Levitated Magnet Force Sensor

Kenan Tian, Siwen Chen, Lei Wang +12

Exotic spin-spin-velocity-dependent interactions, predicted in extensions of the Standard Model involving new bosonic fields, could resolve fundamental puzzles from dark matter to…

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…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Constraints on Velocity and Spin Dependent Exotic Interaction at the Millimeter Scale with a Diamagnetic-levitated Force Sensor

Kenan Tian, Yuanji Sheng, Rui Li +8

Light bosons, beyond the standard model and as prominent candidates for dark matter, can mediate velocity and spin dependent exotic interaction between electron spins and nucleons.…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Search of High-Frequency Variations of Fundamental Constants Using Spin-based Quantum Sensors

Xi Kong, Yuke Zhang, Chenyu Ji +6

This study presents a novel method using spin quantum sensors to explore temporal variations of fundamental constants, significantly expanding the frequency range and providing con…

quant-ph2025★ 133 cited

Single-molecule Scale Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Jiangfeng Du, Fazhan Shi, Xi Kong +2

Single-molecule technology stands as a powerful tool, enabling the characterization of intricate structural and dynamic information that would otherwise remain concealed within the…

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…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Phased Geometric Controls of V-Shaped Three-Level System for Zero-field Quantum Sensing

Zhijie Li, Xiangyu Ye, Xi Kong +6

Here we propose and demonstrate a phased geometric control protocol for zero-field double quantum gates in a V-shaped three-level spin system. This method utilizes linearly polariz…

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★ 2 cited

99.92%-Fidelity CNOT Gates in Solids by Filtering Time-dependent and Quantum Noises

Tianyu Xie, Zhiyuan Zhao, Shaoyi Xu +6

Inevitable interactions with the reservoir largely degrade the performance of non-local gates, which hinders practical quantum computation from coming into existence. Here we exper…

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…

quant-ph2021★ 24 cited

Lens-free Optical Detection of Thermal Motion of a Sub-millimeter Sphere Diamagnetically Levitated in High Vacuum

Fang Xiong, Peiran Yin, Tong Wu +8

Levitated oscillators with millimeter or sub-millimeter size are particularly attractive due to their potential role in studying various fundamental problems and practical applicat…

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★ 12 cited

Searching spin-mass interaction using a diamagnetic levitated magnetic resonance force sensor

Fang Xiong, Tong Wu, Yingchun Leng +8

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted to mediate exotic interactions between spin and mass. We propose an ALP-searching experiment based on the levitated micromechanical oscill…

quant-ph2020★ 35 cited

Mechanical dissipation below 1Hz with a cryogenic diamagnetic-levitated micro-oscillator

Yingchun Leng, Rui Li, Xi Kong +10

Ultralow dissipation plays an important role in sensing applications and exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena using micro-and nano-mechanical systems. We report a diamagnetic-le…

quant-ph2019★ 98 cited

Room temperature test of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization model using a levitated micro-oscillator

Di Zheng, Yingchun Leng, Xi Kong +9

The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model predicts a tiny break of energy conservation via a weak stochastic force acting on physical systems, which triggers the collapse…

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…

quant-ph2019★ 111 cited

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions

Kai Yang, Longwen Zhou, Wenchao Ma +8

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are manifested by time-domain nonanalytic behaviors of many-body systems.Introducing a quench is so far understood as a typical scenario…

quant-ph2018★ 14 cited

Observation of Non-Markovianity at Room Temperature by Prolonging Entanglement in Solids

Shijie Peng, Xiangkun Xu, Kebiao Xu +7

The non-Markovia dynamics of quantum evolution plays an important role in open quantum sytem. However, how to quantify non-Markovian behavior and what can be obtained from non- Mar…

quant-ph2017★ 7 cited

Mesoscopic magnetic resonance spectroscopy with a remote spin sensor

Tianyu Xie, Fazhan Shi, Sanyou Chen +12

Quantum sensing based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has been developed as a powerful tool for microscopic magnetic resonance. However, the reported sensor-to-sample d…

quant-ph2017★ 17 cited

Atomic-scale structure analysis of a molecule at a (6-nanometer) ice crystal

Xi Kong, Fazhan Shi, Zhiping Yang +4

Water is the most important solvent in nature. It is a crucial issue to study interactions among water molecules. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most p…

quant-ph2016★ 40 cited

Direct measurement of topological numbers with spins in diamond

Fei Kong, Chenyong Ju, Ying Liu +9

Topological numbers can characterize the transition between different topological phases, which are not described by Landau's paradigm of symmetry breaking. Since the discovery of…

quant-ph2016★ 1 cited

Experimental test of non-classicality of quantum mechanics using an individual atomic solid-state quantum system

Xi Kong, Mingjun Shi, Mengqi Wang +12

Quantum mechanics provides a statistical description about nature, and thus would be incomplete if its statistical predictions could not be accounted for some realistic models with…

quant-ph2015★ 55 cited

Towards chemical structure resolution with nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Xi Kong, Alexander Stark, Jiangfeng Du +2

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has approached the limit of single molecule sensitivity, however the spectral resolution is currently insufficient to obtain detailed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 118 cited

Sensing and atomic-scale structure analysis of single nuclear spin clusters in diamond

Fazhan Shi, Xi Kong, Pengfei Wang +4

Single-molecule nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a crown-jewel challenge in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and has important applications in chemical analysis and…