activity
20242026
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7 papers

quant-ph2026

RF-free driving of nuclear spins with color centers in silicon carbide

Raphael Wörnle, Jonathan Körber, Timo Steidl +5

Color centers that enable nuclear-spin control without RF fields offer a powerful route towards simplified and scalable quantum devices. Such capabilities are especially valuable f…

quant-ph2026

Optically Addressable Molecular Spins at 2D Surfaces

Xuankai Zhou, Yan-Tung Kong, Cheuk Kit Cheung +18

Optically addressable spins at material surfaces have represented a long-standing ambition in quantum sensing, providing atomic resolution and quantum-limited sensitivity. However,…

quant-ph2025

Localization and coherent control of 25 nuclear spins in Silicon Carbide

Pierre Kuna, Erik Hesselmeier-Hüttmann, Phillip Schillinger +7

Optically addressable spin defects are excellent candidate platform for quantum sensing and quantum network. Nuclear spins coupled to color centers naturally enable long lived quan…

quant-ph2025

Waveguide-integrated colour centres in silicon carbide with broadband photonic crystal reflectors for efficient readout

Marcel Krumrein, Julian M. Bopp, Timo Steidl +5

Spin-active colour centres in 4H silicon carbide are promising candidates as building blocks for quantum information applications. To increase the photon count rate of the emitters…

quant-ph2025

Converting coherence into work with a fully quantum engine

MinSik Kwon, Tobias Denzler, Rouven Maier +4

Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work. We here report the experimental realization of a fully quantum engine that converts quantum coherence into work. A single…

quant-ph2025

Efficient Detection of Statistical RF Fields at High Magnetic Field with a Quantum Sensor

Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Hitoshi Sumiya +4

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in fields ranging from chemistry, material science to neuroscience. Nanoscale NMR spectroscopy using Nitrogen-vacancy (…