Sensing single remote nuclear spins

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 657-662

  Zhao, Nan ^a   Honert, Jan ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^a   Klas, Michael ^a   Isoya, Junichi ^b   Markham, Matthew ^c   Twitchen, Daniel ^c   Jelezko, Fedor ^d   Liu, Ren Bao ^e   Fedder, Helmut ^a   Wrachtrup, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c ELEMENT SIX LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATIONS; DYNAMICAL DECOUPLING; HYPERFINE COUPLING; NITROGEN VACANCIES; NUCLEAR SPIN BATHS; QUANTUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; SINGLE ELECTRON SPIN; WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

CARBON 13; DIAMOND;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 84871057143     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.152     Document Type: Article

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