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7 papers

quant-ph2025

Patterning programmable spin arrays on DNA origami for quantum technologies

Zhiran Zhang, Taylor Morrison, Lillian Hughes +6

The controlled assembly of solid-state spins with nanoscale spatial precision is an outstanding challenge for quantum technology. Here, we combine DNA-based patterning with nitroge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

200 keV energy electron irradiation of single crystal diamond: Quantification of vacancy and nitrogen-vacancy production

Chloe C Newsom, Lillian B Hughes, Ben L Green +2

Electron irradiation and annealing treatments are a method of colour centre/defect creation in diamond. The depth profile of defects created by low energy 200 keV electrons in sing…

quant-ph2025

A spin-embedded diamond optomechanical resonator with mechanical quality factor exceeding one million

Hyunseok Oh, Viraj Dharod, Carl Padgett +13

Diamond optomechanical crystal (OMC) devices with embedded color center spins are promising platforms for a broad range of applications in quantum sensing, networking, and computin…

quant-ph2025

Signal amplification in a solid-state quantum sensor via asymmetric time-reversal of many-body dynamics

Haoyang Gao, Leigh S. Martin, Lillian B. Hughes +8

Electronic spins of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond constitute a promising system for micro- and nano-scale magnetic sensing, due to their operation under ambient conditio…

quant-ph2025

Spin squeezing in an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Weijie Wu, Emily J. Davis, Lillian B. Hughes +10

Spin squeezed states provide a seminal example of how the structure of quantum mechanical correlations can be controlled to produce metrologically useful entanglement. Such squeeze…

quant-ph2025

Scalable, nanoscale positioning of highly coherent color centers in prefabricated diamond nanostructures

Sunghoon Kim, Paz London, Daipeng Yang +6

Nanophotonic devices in color center-containing hosts provide efficient readout, control, and entanglement of the embedded emitters. Yet control over color center formation - in nu…