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20162026
most citedOrientation independent room-temperature optical 13C hyperpolarization in powdered diamond

136 citations · 616 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

physics.optics2026

NaBiF: Er, Yb upconversion particle as a multi-functional bio-marker

Atanu Ghosh, Krishna Kumari Swain, Agniva Das +6

Lanthanide-doped upconversion particles (UCPs) have revolutionized optical bioimaging platforms because of their excellent photostability, non-toxicity, and utilization of near-inf…

quant-ph2026

Spin bath mediated long-lived coherent oscillations of NV centers in diamond

Akshat Rana, Pooja Lamba, Basanta Mistri +3

Decoherence is the biggest bottleneck in all quantum technologies. For nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, the loss of coherence is caused by the electron and nuclear spin ba…

quant-ph2026

Phonon-bottlenecked spin relaxation of Er:CaWO at milliKelvin temperatures

S. Rajendran, B. Mistri, P. K. Sharma +5

We study spin-lattice relaxation times of electron spins in Er:CaWO at millikelvin temperature, detected via their coupling to a low-mode volume superconducting resonato…

quant-ph2026

Clock-transition-enabled long electron spin coherence of telecom emitters in CeO

Basanta Mistri, Vishal Ranjan, Siddharth Dhomkar

Rare-earth-ion-doped crystals has emerged as a promising platform for quantum technologies, owing to their narrow telecom-band optical emission, long spin memory, and compatibility…

physics.app-ph2026

Stabilisation of NV centres in diamond nanopillars at low temperature

Ravi Kumar, Saksham Mahajan, Felix Donaldson +8

Degradation of near surface nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond under optical illumination has restricted their deployment in applications such as scanning NV magnetomety, par…

quant-ph2026

Demonstrating Noise-adapted Quantum Error Correction With Break-Even Performance

Vismay Joshi, Anubhab Rudra, Sourav Dutta +2

The promise of quantum computing is closer to reality today than ever before, thanks to rapid progress in the development of quantum hardware. Even as qubit lifetimes and gate fide…

physics.app-ph2025

Impact of irradiation conditions on the magnetic field sensitivity of spin defects in hBN nano flakes

Saksham Mahajan, Ravi Kumar, Aferdita Xhameni +8

We study centres generated by helium focused ion beam (FIB) irradiation in thin (70 nm) hBN nanoflakes, in order to investigate the effect of implantation…

quant-ph2025

Imaging of microwave magnetic field orientation using continuous-wave experiments on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Akshat Rana, Pooja Lamba, Atanu Ghosh +2

Imaging of microwave magnetic fields with nano-scale resolution has interesting applications. Specifically, detecting the orientation of the microwave fields is useful in condensed…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Inferring activity from the flow field around active colloidal particles using deep learning

Aditya Mohapatra, Aditya Kumar, Mayurakshi Deb +2

Active colloidal particles create flow around them due to non-equilibrium process on their surfaces. In this paper, we infer the activity of such colloidal particles from the flow…

quant-ph2025

Identifying optimal magnetic field configurations for decoherence mitigation of boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride

Basanta Mistri, Saksham Mahajan, Felix Donaldson +2

The negatively charged boron vacancy center in 2D hexagonal boron nitride has emerged as a promising quantum sensor. However, its sensitivity is constrained due to ubiquitous nucle…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Expedited Noise Spectroscopy of Transmon Qubits

Bhavesh Gupta, Vismay Joshi, Udit Kandpal +3

There has been tremendous progress in the physical realization of quantum computing hardware in recent times, bringing us closer than ever before to realizing the promise of quantu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Donor-bound-exciton strain microscopy in silicon devices

Pierandrea Conti, Siddharth Dhomkar, Philipp Ross +2

We explore the effects of stress on silicon donor bound exciton () transitions in bulk silicon and in microfabricated silicon devices. We first study …

physics.app-ph2023

Stability of near surface nitrogen vacancy centers using dielectric surface passivation

Ravi Kumar, Saksham Mahajan, Felix Donaldson +8

We study the photo-physical stability of ensemble near-surface nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond under vacuum and air. The optically detected magnetic resonance contrast of…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Vector detection of AC magnetic fields by Nitrogen-Vacancy centers of single orientation in diamond

Pooja Lamba, Akshat Rana, Sougata Halder +3

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have useful properties for detecting both AC and DC magnetic fields with high sensitivity at nano-scale resolution. Vector detection of AC…

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

Plasmonics enabled atomically thin linearly polarized emitter at room temperature

Bidisha Roy, Maex Blauth, Siddharth Dhomkar +3

Two-dimensional transition metal di-chalcogenide semiconductors provide unique possibilities to investigate strongly confined excitonic physics and a plasmonic platform integrable…

quant-ph2020★ 48 cited

Using deep learning to understand and mitigate the qubit noise environment

David F. Wise, John J. L. Morton, Siddharth Dhomkar

Understanding the spectrum of noise acting on a qubit can yield valuable information about its environment, and crucially underpins the optimization of dynamical decoupling protoco…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 25 cited

Spin readout via spin-to-charge conversion in bulk diamond nitrogen-vacancy ensembles

Harishankar Jayakumar, Siddharth Dhomkar, Jacob Henshaw +1

We demonstrate optical readout of ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy(NV) center spins in a bulk diamond sample via spin-to-charge conversion. A high power 594 nm laser is utilized to se…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 73 cited

Charge dynamics in near-surface, variable-density ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Siddharth Dhomkar, Harishankar Jayakumar, Pablo R. Zangara +1

Although the spin properties of superficial shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers have been the subject of extensive scrutiny, considerably less attention has been devoted to study…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 59 cited

On-Demand Generation of Neutral and Negatively-Charged Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Siddharth Dhomkar, Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw +1

Point defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as versatile resources for nanoscale sensing and quantum information science but our understanding of the photo-ionization…

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★ 114 cited

Long-term data storage in diamond

Siddharth Dhomkar, Jacob Henshaw, Harishankar Jayakumar +1

The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond is the focus of widespread attention for applications ranging from quantum information processing to nanoscale metro…