Absolute magnetometry based on quantum beats in diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers

Autor: Fang, Kejie, Acosta, Victor M., Santori, Charles, Huang, Zhihong, Itoh, Kohei M., Watanabe, Hideyuki, Shikata, Shinichi, Beausoleil, Raymond G.
Rok vydání: 2012
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.130802
Popis: We demonstrate an absolute magnetometer immune to temperature fluctuation and strain inhomogeneity, based on quantum beats in the ground state of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. We apply this technique to measure low-frequency magnetic field noise using a single nitrogen-vacancy center located within 500 nm of the surface of an isotopically-pure (99.99% C12) diamond. The photon-shot-noise limited sensitivity achieves 38 nT/Hz^1/2 for 4.45 s acquisition time, a factor of 2^1/2 better than the implementation which uses only two spin levels. For long acquisition times (>10 s), we realize up to a factor of 15 improvement in magnetic sensitivity, which demonstrates the robustness of our technique against thermal drifts. Applying our technique to nitrogen-vacancy center ensembles, we eliminate dephasing from longitudinal strain inhomogeneity, resulting in a factor of 2.3 improvement in sensitivity.
Databáze: arXiv