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. 2013 Aug 9;111(6):067601.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.067601. Epub 2013 Aug 5.

Detecting and polarizing nuclear spins with double resonance on a single electron spin

P London  1 , J Scheuer, J-M Cai, I Schwarz, A Retzker, M B Plenio, M Katagiri, T Teraji, S Koizumi, J Isoya, R Fischer, L P McGuinness, B Naydenov, F Jelezko
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Detecting and polarizing nuclear spins with double resonance on a single electron spin

P London et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

We report the detection and polarization of nuclear spins in diamond at room temperature by using a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center. We use Hartmann-Hahn double resonance to coherently enhance the signal from a single nuclear spin while decoupling from the noisy spin bath, which otherwise limits the detection sensitivity. As a proof of principle, we (i) observe coherent oscillations between the NV center and a weakly coupled nuclear spin and (ii) demonstrate nuclear-bath cooling, which prolongs the coherence time of the NV sensor by more than a factor of 5. Our results provide a route to nanometer scale magnetic resonance imaging and novel quantum information processing protocols.

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