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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 630-634Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2731
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- Canton Aargau
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020-140478]
- Swiss Nanoscience Institute
- National Center of Competence in Research for Quantum Science and Technology
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_140478] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Soon after the first measurements of nuclear magnetic resonance in a condensed-matter system, Bloch(1) predicted the presence of statistical fluctuations proportional to 1/root N in the polarization of an ensemble of N spins. Such spin noise(2) has recently emerged as a critical ingredient for nanometre-scale magnetic resonance imaging(3-6). This prominence is a consequence of present magnetic resonance imaging resolutions having reached less than (100 nm)(3), a size scale at which statistical spin fluctuations begin to dominate the polarization dynamics. Here, we demonstrate a technique that creates spin order in nanometre-scale ensembles of nuclear spins by harnessing these fluctuations to produce polarizations both larger and narrower than the thermal distribution. This method may provide a route to enhancing the weak magnetic signals produced by nanometre-scale volumes of nuclear spins or a way of initializing the nuclear hyperfine field of electron-spin qubits in the solid state.
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