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.
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.
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 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.
This is how the identification of smallest magnetic fields
with diamond sensors works: in the tiny diamond tip, two adjacent carbon atoms are being removed and one of the resulting
vacancies is replaced by a
nitrogen atom.
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) spectrosc
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) spectrosc
with a resolution of a few nanometers thanks to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
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.
The key to the whole design is the added
nitrogen atom together
with a neighboring
vacancy in the crystal structure.
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.
Each «bristle» contains a single, solid nanofabricated diamond crystal
with a special defect, a
nitrogen -
vacancy (NV) center, located at the tip.
Here we demonstrate a new approach to nanoscale thermometry that uses coherent manipulation of the electronic spin associated
with nitrogen —
vacancy colour centres in diamond.
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 computing.
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.