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Positioning nuclear spins in interacting clusters for quantum technologies and bioimaging

Authors :
Jorge Casanova
Jan Haase
Martin B. Plenio
Zhen-Yu Wang
Source :
Physical Review B. 93
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2016.

Abstract

We propose a method to measure the hyperfine vectors between a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center and an environment of interacting nuclear spins. Our protocol enables the generation of tunable electron-nuclear coupling Hamiltonians while suppressing unwanted inter-nuclear interactions. In this manner, each nucleus can be addressed and controlled individually thereby permitting the reconstruction of the individual hyperfine vectors. With this ability the 3D-structure of spin ensembles and spins in bio-molecules can be identified without the necessity of varying the direction of applied magnetic fields. We demonstrate examples including the complete reconstruction of an interacting spin cluster in diamond and 3D imaging of all the nuclear spins in a bio-molecule.

Details

ISSN :
24699969 and 24699950
Volume :
93
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review B
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....28ce5641429376cfcd2b3ccfa3050e06
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.93.174104