Floquet prethermalization with lifetime exceeding 90 s in a bulk hyperpolarized solid

W Beatrez, O Janes, A Akkiraju, A Pillai, A Oddo… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We report the observation of long-lived Floquet prethermal states in a bulk solid composed
of dipolar-coupled C 13 nuclei in diamond at room temperature. For precessing nuclear …

Critical prethermal discrete time crystal created by two-frequency driving

W Beatrez, C Fleckenstein, A Pillai… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Discrete time crystals are non-equilibrium many-body phases of matter characterized by
spontaneously broken discrete time-translation symmetry under periodic driving. At …

Advances in Stabilization and Enrichment of Shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond for Biosensing and Spin-Polarization Transfer

F Gorrini, A Bifone - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) centers in diamond have unique magneto-
optical properties, such as high fluorescence, single-photon generation, millisecond-long …

Beauty beyond the eye: color centers in diamond particles for imaging and quantum sensing applications

N Nunn, MD Torelli, A Ajoy, AI Smirnov… - Reviews and Advances …, 2022 - Springer
Fluorescent diamond particles are candidates for imaging and quantum sensing in a range
of applications in biological, biomedical, and industrial fields. The fluorescence of these …

Quantum logic enhanced sensing in solid-state spin ensembles

N Arunkumar, KS Olsson, JT Oon, CA Hart… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate quantum logic enhanced sensitivity for a macroscopic ensemble of solid-
state, hybrid two-qubit sensors. We achieve over a factor of 30 improvement in the single …

Polarization Transfer from Optically Pumped Ensembles of N- Centers to Multinuclear Spin Baths

R Rizzato, F Bruckmaier, KS Liu, SJ Glaser… - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamonds have attracted keen interest for nanoscale sensing and
spin manipulation. In particular, the nonequilibrium electron spin polarization after optical …

Optical and electronic spin properties of fluorescent micro-and nanodiamonds upon prolonged ultrahigh-temperature annealing

N Nunn, S Milikisiyants, MD Torelli, R Monge… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
High-temperature annealing is a promising but still mainly unexplored method for enhancing
spin properties of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond particles …

Milled nanodiamonds overproduce solvated electrons while scavenging hydroxyl radicals under gamma irradiation

F Ducrozet, E Brun, HA Girard, JC Arnault… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Among the different nanodiamonds, milled nanodiamonds (MNDs) from high-pressure high-
temperature synthesis exhibit a crystalline quality close to that of the bulk diamond, making it …

Co-Design quantum simulation of nanoscale NMR

MG Algaba, M Ponce-Martinez, C Munuera-Javaloy… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently simulate the dynamics of nanoscale
NMR systems. In this work, we demonstrate that a noisy intermediate-scale quantum …

Long-Lived Ensembles of Shallow NV Centers in Flat and Nanostructured Diamonds by Photoconversion

F Gorrini, C Dorigoni, D Olivares-Postigo… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Shallow, negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV–) in diamond have been
proposed for high-sensitivity magnetometry and spin-polarization transfer applications …