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20142026
most citedOrientation independent room-temperature optical 13C hyperpolarization in powdered diamond

136 citations · 450 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Observation of long-lived spin order in nanoconfined water

Rohma Khan, Kang Xu, Nathaniel Jeffries +4

Liquids confined to nanometer-scale geometries exhibit behavior that departs markedly from their bulk counterparts, yet studying their dynamics under controlled conditions remains…

physics.chem-ph2025

Probing interfacial water via color-center-enabled spin magnetometry

Kang Xu, Kapila Elkaduwe, Rohma Khan +7

Understanding the behavior of confined water at liquid-solid interfaces is central to numerous physical, chemical, and biological processes, yet remains experimentally challenging.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Slow water in engineered nano-channels revealed by color-center-enabled sensing

Daniela Pagliero, Rohma Khan, Kapila Elkaduwe +7

Nanoscale confinement of molecules in a fluid can result in enhanced viscosity, local fluidic order, or collective motion. Confinement also affects ion transport and/or the rate an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Photoinduced charge injection from shallow point defects in diamond into water

Kang Xu, Daniela Pagliero, Gabriel I. Lopez Morales +3

Thanks to its low or negative surface electron affinity and chemical inertness, diamond is attracting broad attention as a source material of solvated electrons produced by optical…

quant-ph2023

Quantum sensing via magnetic-noise-protected states in an electronic spin dyad

Carlos A. Meriles, Pablo R. Zangara, Daniela Pagliero

Extending the coherence lifetime of a qubit is central to the implementation and deployment of quantum technologies, particularly in the solid-state where various noise sources int…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 3 cited

Dynamic-nuclear-polarization-weighted spectroscopy of multi-spin electronic-nuclear clusters

Roberta Pigliapochi, Daniela Pagliero, Lisandro Buljubasich +4

Nuclear spins and paramagnetic centers in a solid randomly group to form clusters featuring nearly-degenerate, hybrid states whose dynamics are central to processes involving nucle…

physics.optics2022

Toward deep-learning-assisted spectrally-resolved imaging of magnetic noise

Fernando Meneses, David F. Wise, Daniela Pagliero +3

Recent progress in the application of color centers to nanoscale spin sensing makes the combined use of noise spectroscopy and scanning probe imaging an attractive route for the ch…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Spin dynamics of a solid-state qubit in proximity to a superconductor

Richard Monge, Tom Delord, Nicholas Proscia +11

A broad effort is underway to understand and harness the interaction between superconductors and spin-active color centers with an eye on the realization of hybrid quantum devices…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 8 cited

Investigation of photon emitters in Ce-implanted hexagonal boron nitride

Gabriel I. López-Morales, Mingxing Li, Alexander Hampel +9

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are presently attracting broad interest as a novel platform for nanoscale sensing and quantum information processing. Unfortunately,…

physics.app-ph2021★ 4 cited

Nuclear spin temperature reversal via continuous radio-frequency driving

Pablo R. Zangara, Daniela Pagliero, Ashok Ajoy +3

Optical spin pumping of color centers in diamond is presently attracting broad interest as a platform for dynamic nuclear polarization at room temperature, but the mechanisms invol…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 9 cited

Magnetic-field-induced delocalization in hybrid electron-nuclear spin ensembles

Daniela Pagliero, Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw +6

We use field-cycling-assisted dynamic nuclear polarization and continuous radio-frequency (RF) driving over a broad spectral range to demonstrate magnetic-field-dependent activatio…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Optically pumped spin polarization as a probe of many-body thermalization

Daniela Pagliero, Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw +5

The interplay between disorder and transport is a problem central to the understanding of a broad range of physical processes, most notably the ability of a system to reach thermal…

quant-ph2019★ 35 cited

13C dynamic nuclear polarization in diamond via a microwave-free 'integrated' cross effect

J. Henshaw, D. Pagliero, P. R. Zangara +6

Color-center-hosting semiconductors are emerging as promising source materials for low-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) at or near room temperature, but hyperfine broadenin…

quant-ph2019★ 18 cited

Two-electron-spin ratchets as a platform for microwave-free dynamic nuclear polarization of arbitrary material targets

Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw, Daniela Pagliero +4

Optically-pumped color centers in semiconductor powders can potentially induce high levels of nuclear spin polarization in surrounding solids or fluids at or near ambient condition…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 42 cited

Dynamics of frequency-swept nuclear spin optical pumping in powdered diamond at low magnetic fields

Pablo R. Zangara, Siddharth Dhomkar, Ashok Ajoy +7

A broad effort is underway to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance through the use of dynamic nuclear polarization. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer…

physics.app-ph2018★ 136 cited

Orientation independent room-temperature optical 13C hyperpolarization in powdered diamond

A. Ajoy, K. Liu, R. Nazaryan +15

Dynamic nuclear polarization via contact with electronic spins has emerged as an attractive route to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) beyond the traditio…

quant-ph2017★ 50 cited

Multi-spin-assisted optical pumping of bulk 13C nuclear spin polarization in diamond

Daniela Pagliero, K. R. Koteswara Rao, Pablo R. Zangara +11

One of the most remarkable properties of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is that optical illumination initializes its electronic spin almost completely, a feature that…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 62 cited

Optical patterning of trapped charge in nitrogen-doped diamond

Harishankar Jayakumar, Jacob Henshaw, Siddharth Dhomkar +6

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is emerging as a promising platform for solid-state quantum information processing and nanoscale metrology. Of interest in these applica…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 15 cited

Imaging nuclear spins weakly coupled to a probe paramagnetic center

Abdelghani Laraoui, Daniela Pagliero, Carlos A. Meriles

Optically-detected paramagnetic centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as a promising platform for nanoscale metrology at room temperature. Of particular interest are…

quant-ph2014★ 35 cited

Recursive polarization of nuclear spins in diamond at arbitrary magnetic fields

Daniela Pagliero, Abdelghani Laraoui, Jacob D. Henshaw +1

We introduce an alternate route to dynamically polarize the nuclear spin host of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Our approach articulates optical, microwave and radio-fre…