nLab nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

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Idea

In solid state physics, an impure form of diamond may be obtained where, in the center of the Bravais lattice, carbon nuclei are replaced by a nitrogen nucleus and a vacancy, referred to as the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond (often short: NV center).

In such a material, the spin of one of the electron orbitals bound to the nitrogen nucleus has a long quantum decoherence time and lends itself to manipulation by spin resonance.

from AHWZ18, Fig 1

Original articles:

J. M. Taylor et al., High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution, Nature Phys 4 (2008) 810–816 [doi:10.1038/nphys1075]

Review and further discussion

David D. Awschalom, Ronald Hanson, Jörg Wrachtrup & Brian B. Zhou, Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins, Nature Photonics 12 (2018) 516–527 [doi:10.1038/s41566-018-0232-2]
Awschalom group, The Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond [web]

Application to quantum sensing:

Jixing Zhang, Lixia Xu, Guodong Bian, Pengcheng Fan, Mingxin Li, Wuming Liu, Heng Yuan, Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Magnetometry: Advances and Challenges [arXiv:2010.10231]
Mouzhe Xie et al., Biocompatible surface functionalization architecture for a diamond quantum sensor, PNAS 119 8 (2022) e2114186119 [arXiv:2108.04843, doi:10.1073/pnas.2114186119]
Nick R. Neuling, Robin D. Allert, Dominik B. Bucher, Prospects of Single-Cell NMR Spectroscopy with Quantum Sensors, Current Opinion in Biotechnology 83 (2023) 102975 [arXiv:2306.07593, doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2023.102975]
M. Barson et al.: Nanomechanical sensing using spins in diamond, Nano Letters 17 3 (2017) [arXiv:1612.05325, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04544]

Survey:

Mouzhe Xie, Diamond-based quantum sensor for molecular analytics, talk at CQTS (Apr 2023) [slides: pdf, video: YT]