Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 105, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.205401
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and Technology [EP/L015315/1]
- Royal Society
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- UK National Quantum Technologies Programme through the NQIT Hub (Networked Quantum Information Technologies)
- UK National Quantum Technologies Programme through the Quantum Computing and Simulation (QCS) Hub
- UK National Quantum Technologies Programme through the Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Metrology
- UKRI EPSRC [EP/M013243/1, EP/T001062/1, EP/M013294/1]
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It has been found that using milling to fabricate nanodiamonds can result in NV-nanodiamonds with long spin coherence times, which is important for their applications as localized sensors in biological materials.
Nanodiamonds containing negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centers (NV-) have applications as localized sensors in biological materials and have been proposed as a platform to probe the macroscopic limits of spatial superposition and the quantum nature of gravity. A key requirement for these applications is to obtain nanodiamonds containing NV- with long spin coherence times. Using milling to fabricate nanodiamonds processes the full 3D volume of the bulk material at once, unlike etching pillars, but has, up to now, limited NV- spin coherence times. Here, we use natural isotopic abundance nanodiamonds produced by Si3N4 ball milling of chemical vapor deposition grown bulk diamond with an average single substitutional nitrogen concentration of 121 ppb. We show that the electron spin coherence times of NV- centers in these nanodiamonds can exceed 400 mu s at room temperature with dynamical decoupling. Scanning electron microscopy provides images of the specific nanodiamonds containing NV- for which a spin coherence time was measured.
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