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Oxygen in diamond: thermal stability of ST1 spin centres and creation of oxygen-pair complexes
Paul Neugebauer, Xinxi Huang, Chloe Newsom +11
Little is known about oxygen-related defects in diamond. Recently, the promising room-temperature spin centre named ST1 was identified as an oxygen centre, but of still unknown ato…
Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Epitaxial Laterally Overgrown Diamond: Towards Up-scaling of Color Center-based Quantum Technologies
Nimba Oshnik, Sebastian Westrich, Nina Burmeister +7
Providing high-quality, single-crystal diamond (SCD) with a large area is desirable for up-scaling quantum technology applications that rely on color centers in diamond. Growth met…
Rare-earth doped yttrium silicate (Y2SiO5) thin films grown by chemical vapour deposition for quantum technologies
Suma Al-Hunaishi, Anna Blin, Nao Harada +4
Yttrium orthosilicate (Y2SiO5 - YSO) is one of the most promising crystals to host rare-earth (RE) ions for quantum technologies applications. In this matrix, they indeed exhibit n…
Hot ion implantation to create dense NV centre ensembles in diamond
Midrel Wilfried Ngandeu Ngambou, Pauline Perrin, Ionut Balasa +9
Creating dense and shallow nitrogen vacancy (NV) ensembles with good spin properties, is a prerequisite for developing diamond-based quantum sensors exhibiting better performance.…
Optical coherence properties of Kramers' rare-earth ions at the nanoscale for quantum applications
Mohammed K. Alqedra, Chetan Deshmukh, Shuping Liu +12
Rare-earth (RE) ion doped nano-materials are promising candidates for a range of quantum technology applications. Among RE ions, the so-called Kramers' ions possess spin transition…
All-Optical Nuclear Quantum Sensing using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Beat Bürgler, Tobias F. Sjolander, Ovidiu Brinza +3
Solid state spins have demonstrated significant potential in quantum sensing with applications including fundamental science, medical diagnostics and navigation. The quantum sensin…
Optical properties of SiV and GeV color centers in nanodiamonds under hydrostatic pressures up to 180 GPa
Baptiste Vindolet, Marie-Pierre Adam, Loïc Toraille +14
We investigate the optical properties of silicon-vacancy (SiV) and germanium-vacancy (GeV) color centers in nanodiamonds under hydrostatic pressure up to 180 GPa. The nanodiamonds…
Roadmap for Rare-earth Quantum Computing
Adam Kinos, David Hunger, Roman Kolesov +11
Several platforms are being considered as hardware for quantum technologies. For quantum computing (QC), superconducting qubits and artificially trapped ions are among the leading…
Optical Detection of Paramagnetic Defects in a CVD-grown Diamond
C. Pellet-Mary, P. Huillery, M. Perdriat +2
The electronic spins of the nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV centers) in Chemical-Vapor-Deposition (CVD) grown diamonds form ideal probes of magnetic fields and temperature, as well as…
Fast electrical modulation of strong near-field interactions between erbium emitters and graphene
Daniel Cano, Alban Ferrier, Karuppasamy Soundarapandian +9
Combining the quantum optical properties of single-photon emitters with the strong near-field interactions available in nanophotonic and plasmonic systems is a powerful way of crea…
A Frequency-Multiplexed Coherent Electro-Optic Memory in Rare Earth Doped Nanoparticles
Alexandre Fossati, Shuping Liu, Jenny Karlsson +5
Quantum memories for light are essential components in quantum technologies like long-distance quantum communication and distributed quantum computing. Recent studies have shown th…
Coherent Microwave Control of a Nuclear Spin Ensemble at Room Temperature
P. Huillery, J. Leibold, T. Delord +4
We use nominally forbidden electron-nuclear spin transitions in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to demonstrate coherent manipulation of a nuclear spin ensemble using micro…
(111)-oriented, single crystal diamond tips for nanoscale scanning probe imaging of out-of-plane magnetic fields
D. Rohner, J. Happacher, P. Reiser +5
We present an implementation of all-diamond scanning probes for scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry fabricated from (111)-oriented diamond material. The realized scanning p…
Coherent optical and spin spectroscopy of nanoscale Pr3+:Y2O3
D. Serrano, C. Deshmukh, S. Liu +4
We investigate the potential for optical quantum technologies of Pr3+:Y2O3 in the form of monodisperse spherical nanoparticles. We measured optical inhomogeneous lines of 27 GHz, a…
Initialization and Readout of Nuclear Spins via negatively charged Silicon-Vacancy Center in Diamond
Mathias H. Metsch, Katharina Senkalla, Benedikt Tratzmiller +7
In this work, we demonstrate initialization and readout of nuclear spins via a negatively charged silicon-vacancy (SiV) electron spin qubit. Under Hartmann-Hahn conditions the elec…
Optimizing synthetic diamond samples for quantum sensing technologies by tuning the growth temperature
S. Chouaieb, L. J. Martínez, W. Akhtar +6
Control of the crystalline orientation of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond is here demonstrated by tuning the temperature of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth on a (11…
Microwave device characterisation using a widefield diamond microscope
Andrew Horsley, Patrick Appel, Janik Wolters +4
Devices relying on microwave circuitry form a cornerstone of many classical and emerging quantum technologies. A capability to provide in-situ, noninvasive and direct imaging of th…
Preferential orientation of NV defects in CVD diamond films grown on (113) substrates
M. Lesik, T. Plays, A. Tallaire +9
Thick CVD diamond layers were successfully grown on (113)-oriented substrates. They exhibited smooth surface morphologies and a crystalline quality comparable to (100) electronic g…
Temperature dependent creation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in CVD diamond layers
A. Tallaire, M. Lesik, V. Jacques +8
In this work, we explore the ability of plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD) operating under high power densities to produce thin high-quality diamond layers with a co…
Magnetic imaging with an ensemble of Nitrogen Vacancy centers in diamond
M. Chipaux, A. Tallaire, J. Achard +5
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is an atom-like system in the solid-state which specific spin properties can be efficiently used as a sensitive magnetic sensor. A…
Photonic nano-structures on (111) oriented diamond
Elke Neu, Patrick Appel, Marc Ganzhorn +7
We demonstrate the fabrication of single-crystalline diamond nanopillars on a (111)-oriented chemical vapor deposited diamond substrate. This crystal orientation offers optimal cou…
Perfect preferential orientation of nitrogen-vacancy defects in a synthetic diamond sample
M. Lesik, J. -P. Tetienne, A. Tallaire +5
We show that the orientation of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond can be efficiently controlled through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth on a (111)-oriented diamond su…
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…