Many-body–localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator

J Randall, CE Bradley, FV van der Gronden, A Galicia… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The discrete time crystal (DTC) is a nonequilibrium phase of matter that spontaneously
breaks time-translation symmetry. Disorder-induced many-body localization can stabilize the …

Polarization transfer to external nuclear spins using ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers

AJ Healey, LT Hall, GAL White, T Teraji, MA Sani… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has emerged as a candidate to noninvasively
hyperpolarize nuclear spins in molecular systems to improve the sensitivity of nuclear …

Prospects for nuclear spin hyperpolarization of molecular samples using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

JP Tetienne, LT Hall, AJ Healey, GAL White, MA Sani… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV)
centers in diamond have been proposed as a noninvasive platform to achieve …

Adiabatic dynamical-decoupling-based control of nuclear spin registers

OT Whaites, J Randall, TH Taminiau, TS Monteiro - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The use of the nuclear spins surrounding electron spin qubits as quantum registers and long-
lived memories opens the way to new applications in quantum information and biological …

Hyperpolarization of nuclear spins: Polarization blockade

OT Whaites, CI Ioannou, BJ Pingault… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Efficient hyperpolarization of nuclear spins via optically active defect centers, such as the
nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, has great potential for enhancing NMR-based …

Dynamical decoupling methods in nanoscale NMR

C Munuera-Javaloy, R Puebla, J Casanova - Europhysics Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) schemes can be applied to micron-, and nanometer-
sized samples by the aid of quantum sensors such as nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in …

Quantifying the magnetic noise power spectrum for ensembles of P1 and NV centers in diamond

EQ Williams, C Ramanathan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12643, 2023 - arxiv.org
We use Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) dynamical decoupling to measure the magnetic
noise power spectra for ensembles of P1 and NV centers in diamond using pulsed electron …

Enhancing electron-nuclear resonances by dynamical control switching

S Xu, C Xie, ZY Wang - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Realizing efficient resonant coupling between spins of different energy scales has significant
applications in spin-based quantum technologies, such as quantum sensing. We find that …

Pulsed control methods with applications to nuclear hyperpolarization and nanoscale NMR

B Tratzmiller - 2021 - oparu.uni-ulm.de
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an established method for non-invasive and non-
destructive imaging and spectroscopy. The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond has …

Enhancing the robustness of dynamical decoupling sequences with correlated random phases

Z Wang, J Casanova, MB Plenio - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
We show that the addition of correlated phases to the recently developed method of
randomized dynamical decoupling pulse sequences can improve its performance in …