Vector Magnetometry with Broadband Microwave Fields in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Summary
arXiv:2606.02749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel method for full vector magnetometry using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. In contrast to conventional optically detected magnetic resonance techniques, our method employs two distinct broadband microwave pulses and measures them after transmission through the NV sensor medium, thus capturing the line splitting of the ground state triplet due to the Zeeman effect. Two orthogonally polarized microwave pulses allow resolving all magnetic field components independently by reading out differently oriented NV centers.
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