Sentences with phrase «nitrogen vacancy centers»

We present a method to achieve general N - body entangling quantum gates between nuclear spins in solid - state platforms based on nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond or divacancies in silicon carbide.

On the other hand, dynamic nuclear polarization of molecules via nitrogen vacancy centers has important applications in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy since it would greatly increase the standard sensitivity of current scanners.

One of the directions for the Center's research will involve nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, which can store information written and read out using light, as shown in this research illustration courtesy of Marko Loncar, Harvard SEAS.

The paper is titled «Room - temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond.»

Furthermore, the researchers plan to position these nitrogen vacancy centers, which are sensitive to magnetic fields, in diamond platelets in order to visualize the distribution of magnetic moments.

The two papers are both based on the manipulation of the same material, an atomic - scale defect in diamond known as the nitrogen vacancy center.

The detection of magnetic fields is carried out with the help of a so called nitrogen vacancy center (NV), located approximately 10 nanometers below the surface of the diamond tip.

With the help of the electrons of the resulting nitrogen vacancy center, even smallest magnetic fields can be detected with a resolution of a few nanometers thanks to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

In their paper, published in Scientic Reports, the authors present the first demonstration that single - photon emission from a specially oriented compound defect (a nitrogen vacancy center) in diamond is dynamically and statically unpolarized with intrinsic randomness.

Figure 1) Schematic picture of unpolarized single - photon generation using a compound defect, a nitrogen vacancy center (NV center), in a diamond.

Not exact matches

Diamonds designed with nitrogen - vacancy (NV) centers that can detect changes in magnetic fields are a powerful tool for biosensing technologies and used in the medical detection and diagnosis of disease.

As they report this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers in Japan have reproducibly formed an aligned ensemble of quantum sensors called nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, just nanometers from its substrate's surface.

In diamond at room temperature, Maurer et al. (p. 1283) show that a spin - based qubit system comprised of an isotopic impurity (13C) in the vicinity of a color defect (a nitrogen - vacancy center) could be manipulated to have a coherence time exceeding one second.

This spin is associated with a naturally occurring defect in diamond known as the nitrogen - vacancy center, a promising quantum bit (qubit) for quantum information processing.

The nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the atomic structure of a diamond where one carbon atom in the diamond lattice is replaced by a nitrogen atom, and an adjacent site in the lattice is vacant.

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic - sized defect in diamond — the nitrogen - vacancy center — in a method that not only allows for more unified control than conventional processes, but is more versatile, and opens up the possibility of exploring new solid - state quantum systems.

A nitrogen - vacancy center is an atomic - scale defect formed in the diamond lattice by substituting a nitrogen atom for a carbon atom and creating a neighboring void in the crystal lattice.

Technology visionaries are thinking about using nitrogen - vacancy centers to probe for cracks in metals, such as bridge structures or jet engine blades, for homeland security applications, as sensitive rotation sensors, and perhaps even as building blocks for quantum computers.

Their focus over the past two years has been on diamond crystals and an impurity called a nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center, in which optical and spin degrees of freedom are coupled.

This combined nitrogen - vacancy center acts as the actual sensor, emitting light when it is exposed to a laser and microwaves.

They then heated the crystal to force the holes, called vacancies, to move around and pair with nitrogen atoms, resulting in diamonds with so - called nitrogen - vacancy centers.

Each «bristle» contains a single, solid nanofabricated diamond crystal with a special defect, a nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center, located at the tip.

Researchers have successfully manipulated such nitrogen — vacancy centers — a step towards using them to perform quantum calculations.

Quantum physicist Ronald Hanson, who works with nitrogen vacancies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, says that Benson's experiment, together with an April paper showing that spins in NV centers located 3 meters apart can be linked, indicates that diamond is gaining ground as a convenient material for quantum computing.

Disrupted oscillations The researchers focused on nitrogen — vacancy (NV) centers, imperfections in diamond that arise where an atom of nitrogen and an empty space replace carbon atoms at two neighboring spots in the crystal lattice.

When a nitrogen atom replaces a carbon in the crystal structure of diamond, it creates a nitrogen - vacancy center, which can store information that is written and read out using light.

The Center develops new materials, devices and systems based on three types of quantum materials: atomic layers such as graphene, topological insulators, and nitrogen vacancy (NV) center diCenter develops new materials, devices and systems based on three types of quantum materials: atomic layers such as graphene, topological insulators, and nitrogen vacancy (NV) center dicenter diamond.

By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University has vastly improved the performance of one of the most potent possible sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale — a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms, called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center.

The Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will receive up to $ 20 million over five years to fund research and education programs that explore the unique electronic behavior of quantum materials, including graphene, topological insulators, and nitrogen - vacancy center diamond, with the goal of achieving new breakthroughs in electronics, photonics, and compCenter for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will receive up to $ 20 million over five years to fund research and education programs that explore the unique electronic behavior of quantum materials, including graphene, topological insulators, and nitrogen - vacancy center diamond, with the goal of achieving new breakthroughs in electronics, photonics, and compcenter diamond, with the goal of achieving new breakthroughs in electronics, photonics, and computing.

The electronic spin of nitrogen - vacancy (NV) centers in diamond is extremely sensitive to local magnetic fields, which makes them a valuable tool for sensing nuclear and electronic spins in their vicinity.

We combine this scheme with optically polarized nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center spins in diamonds which provides near perfect electron polarization source at room temperature.

Sensing of single nuclear spins in random thermal motion with proximate nitrogen - vacancy centers.

Severe challenges are posed by the random orientation of the nanodiamonds and their nitrogen - vacancy centers.