ﻻ يوجد ملخص باللغة العربية
Measuring spins is the corner stone of a variety of analytical techniques including modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The full potential of spin imaging and sensing across length scales is hindered by the achievable signal-to-noise in inductive detection schemes. Here we show that a proximal Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) ensemble serves as a precision sensing array. Monitoring its quantum relaxation enables sensing of freely diffusing and unperturbed magnetic ions in a microfluidic device. Multiplexed CCD acquisition and an optimized detection scheme enable direct spin noise imaging under ambient conditions with experimental sensitivities down to 1000 statistically polarized spins, of which only 35 ions contribute to a net magnetization, and 20 s acquisition time. We also demonstrate imaging of spin labeled cellular structures with spatial resolutions below 500 nm. Our study marks a major step towards sub-{mu}m imaging magnetometry and applications in microanalytics, material and life sciences.
The detection of ensembles of spins under ambient conditions has revolutionized the biological, chemical, and physical sciences through magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance. Pushing sensing capabilities to the individual-spin lev
Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of two-dimensional m
Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are attractive as quantum sensors owing to their superb coherence under ambient conditions. However, the NV centre spin resonances are relatively insensitive to some important parameters such as temperature. H
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized biomedical science by providing non-invasive, three-dimensional biological imaging. However, spatial resolution in conventional MRI systems is limited to tens of microns, which is insufficient for i
Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under ambient cond