Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01158-3
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via the Emmy Noether grant [RE3606/1-1]
- Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Quantum sensors-qubits sensitive to external fields-have become powerful detectors for various small acoustic and electromagnetic fields. A major key to their success have been dynamical decoupling protocols which enhance sensitivity to weak oscillating (AC) signals. Currently, those methods are limited to signal frequencies below a few MHz. Here we harness a quantum-optical effect, the Mollow triplet splitting of a strongly driven two-level system, to overcome this limitation. We microscopically understand this effect as a pulsed dynamical decoupling protocol and find that it enables sensitive detection of fields close to the driven transition. Employing a nitrogen-vacancy center, we detect GHz microwave fields with a signal strength (Rabi frequency) below the current detection limit, which is set by the center's spectral linewidth 1/T-2*. Pushing detection sensitivity to the much lower 1/T-2 limit, this scheme could enable various applications, most prominently coherent coupling to single phonons and microwave photons.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available