Nanoscale magnetic imaging can provide microscopic information about length scales,
inhomogeneity and interactions of materials systems. As such, it is a powerful tool to probe …

Emerging quantum technologies require precise control over quantum systems of increasing
complexity. Defects in diamond, particularly the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center …

Colour centres in wide-bandgap semiconductors feature metastable charge states that can
be interconverted with the help of optical excitation at select wavelengths. The distinct …

Understanding the capture of charge carriers by colour centres in semiconductors is
important for the development of novel forms of sensing and quantum information …

High fidelity single-shot readout of qubits is a crucial component for fault-tolerant quantum
computing and scalable quantum networks. In recent years, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) …

Single-molecule technology stands as a powerful tool, enabling the characterization of
intricate structural and dynamic information that would otherwise remain concealed within …

Photon-emission-correlation spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for the study of atoms,
molecules, and, more recently, solid-state quantum defects. In solid-state systems, its most …

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method to strongly increase the sensitivity of
spin measurements on nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, which can be readily …

The use of entangled sensors improves the precision limit from the standard quantum limit
(SQL) to the Heisenberg limit. Most previous experiments beating the SQL are performed on …

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be used for nanoscale sensing with atomic
resolution and sensitivity; however, it has been observed that their properties degrade as …