Single-molecule technology stands as a powerful tool, enabling the characterization of
intricate structural and dynamic information that would otherwise remain concealed within …

The long-dreamed-of capability of monitoring the molecular machinery in living systems has
not been realized yet, mainly due to the technical limitations of current sensing technologies …

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state defect qubit with favorable
coherence time up to room temperature, which could be harnessed in several quantum …

The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

ABSTRACT A dense layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers near the surface of a diamond
can be interrogated in a widefield optical microscope to produce spatially resolved maps of …

Optically active point defects in crystals have gained widespread attention as photonic
systems that could be applied in quantum information technologies,. However, challenges …

The past two decades have seen great advances in develo** color centers in diamond for
sensing, quantum information processing, and tests of quantum foundations. Increasingly …

There has been rapidly growing interest in hybrid quantum devices involving a solid-state
spin and a macroscopic mechanical oscillator. Such hybrid devices create exciting …

Effective methods to generate colour centres in diamond and other wide band-gap materials
are essential to the realisation of solid state quantum technologies based on such systems …

Diamond hosts a wide variety of colour centres that have demonstrated outstanding optical
and spin properties. Among them, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre is by far the most …