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Quantum diamond magnetometry for navigation in GNSS denied environments
Xuezhi Wang, Wenchao Li, Bill Moran +5
In this paper, a probabilistic method for map matching localisation based on magnetometery measurement and total magnetic intensity maps is described. We show that the method is ab…
Method for in-solution, high-throughput T1 relaxometry using fluorescent nanodiamonds
Erin. S. Grant, Mina Barzegar Amiri Olia, Ella. P. Walsh +3
Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) have been exploited as sensitive quantum probes for nanoscale chemical and biological sensing applications, with the majority of demonstrations to d…
Hyperpolarisation of external nuclear spins using nitrogen-vacancy centre ensembles
A. J. Healey, L. T. Hall, G. A. L. White +5
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond has emerged as a candidate to non-invasively hyperpolarise nuclear spins in molecular systems to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magn…
Maximising Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation via Selective Hyperfine Tuning
L. T. Hall, D. A. Broadway, A. Stacey +3
Dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP) refers to a class of techniques used to increase the signal in nuclear magnetic resonance measurements by transferring spin polarisation from ens…
Prospects for nuclear spin hyperpolarisation of molecular samples using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
J. -P. Tetienne, L. T. Hall, A. J. Healey +4
After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond have been proposed as a non-invasive platform to achieve hyperpolarisatio…
Quantum bath control with nuclear spin state selectivity via pulse-adjusted dynamical decoupling
J. E. Lang, D. A. Broadway, G. A. L. White +5
Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a powerful method for controlling arbitrary open quantum systems. In quantum spin control, DD generally involves a sequence of timed spin flips ( ro…
Quantum magnetic imaging of iron biomineralisation in teeth of the chiton Acanthopleura hirtosa
Julia M. McCoey, Mirai Matsuoka, Robert W. de Gille +6
Iron biomineralisation is critical for life. Nature capitalises on the physical attributes of iron biominerals for a variety of functional, structural and sensory applications. Alt…
The non-vanishing effect of detuning errors in dynamical decoupling based quantum sensing experiments
J. E. Lang, T. Madhavan, J. -P. Tetienne +6
Characteristic dips appear in the coherence traces of a probe qubit when dynamical decoupling (DD) is applied in synchrony with the precession of target nuclear spins, forming the…
Non-neurotoxic Nanodiamond Probes for Intraneuronal Temperature Mapping
David A. Simpson, Emma Morrisroe, Julia M. McCoey +6
Optical bio-markers have been used extensively for intracellular imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution. Extending the modality of these probes is a key driver in cell b…
Proximity-induced artefacts in magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond
J. -P. Tetienne, D. A. Broadway, S. E. Lillie +6
Magnetic imaging with ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond is a recently developed technique that allows for quantitative vector field mapping. Here we uncover a s…
High precision single qubit tuning via thermo-magnetic field control
David A. Broadway, Scott E. Lillie, Nikolai Dontschuk +4
Precise control of the resonant frequency of a spin qubit is of fundamental importance to quantum sensing protocols. We demonstrate a control technique on a single nitrogen-vacancy…
Spin properties of dense near-surface ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
J. -P. Tetienne, R. W. de Gille, D. A. Broadway +8
We present a study of the spin properties of dense layers of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond created by nitrogen ion implantation. The optically detected magn…
Quantum probe hyperpolarisation of molecular nuclear spins
David A. Broadway, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Alastair Stacey +4
The hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins within target molecules is a critical and complex challenge in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectros…
Quantum magnetic resonance microscopy
David A. Simpson, Robert G. Ryan, Liam T. Hall +6
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is universally regarded as one of the most important tools in chemical and bio-medical research. However, sensitivity limitations typically restrict…
Microwave-Free Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at Molecular Scales
James D. A. Wood, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, David A. Broadway +4
The implementation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at the nanoscale is a major challenge, as conventional systems require relatively large ensembles of spins and limit resoluti…
Spin dynamics of diamond nitrogen-vacancy centres at the ground state level anti-crossing and all-optical low frequency magnetic field sensing
David A. Broadway, James D. A. Wood, Liam T. Hall +5
We investigate the photo-induced spin dynamics of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond near the electronic ground state level anti-crossing (GSLAC), which occurs at an a…
Wide-band, nanoscale magnetic resonance spectroscopy using quantum relaxation of a single spin in diamond
James D. A. Wood, David A. Broadway, Liam T. Hall +4
We demonstrate a wide-band all-optical method of nanoscale magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy under ambient conditions. Our method relies on cross-relaxation between a probe spin…
Magneto-optical imaging of thin magnetic films using spins in diamond
David A. Simpson, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Julia McCoey +5
Imaging the fields of magnetic materials provides crucial insight into the physical and chemical processes surrounding magnetism, and has been a key ingredient in the spectacular d…
Tracking individual nanodiamonds in Drosophila melanogaster embryos
David A. Simpson, Amelia J. Thompson, Mark Kowarsky +12
Tracking the dynamics of fluorescent nanoparticles during embryonic development allows insights into the physical state of the embryo and, potentially, molecular processes governin…
Analytic solutions to the central spin problem for Nitrogen Vacancy centres in diamond
Liam T. Hall, Jared H. Cole, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Due to interest in both solid state based quantum computing architectures and the application of quantum mechanical systems to nanomagnetometry, there has been considerable recent…
Single molecule NMR detection and spectroscopy using single spins in diamond
Viktor S. Perunicic, Liam T. Hall, David A. Simpson +2
Nanomagnetometry using the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond has attracted a great deal of interest because of the combined features of room temperature operation, nanoscale…
Detection of atomic spin labels in a lipid bi-layer using a single-spin nanodiamond probe
Stefan Kaufmann, David A. Simpson, Liam T. Hall +11
Magnetic field fluctuations arising from fundamental spins are ubiquitous in nanoscale biology, and are a rich source of information about the processes that generate them. However…
Ambient Nanoscale Sensing with Single Spins Using Quantum Decoherence
L. P. McGuinness, L. T. Hall, A. Stacey +11
Magnetic resonance detection is one of the most important tools used in life-sciences today. However, as the technique detects the magnetization of large ensembles of spins it is f…
Magnetic spin imaging under ambient conditions with sub-cellular resolution
S. Steinert, F. Ziem, L. Hall +6
Measuring spins is the corner stone of a variety of analytical techniques including modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The full potential of spin imaging and sensing across l…