
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of an atomically thin material using a single-spin qubit
Author(s) -
Igor Lovchinsky,
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Elana Urbach,
Soonwon Choi,
Shiang Fang,
Trond I. Andersen,
Kenji Watanabe,
Takashi Taniguchi,
Alexei Bylinskii,
Efthimios Kaxiras,
Philip Kim,
Hongkun Park,
Mikhail D. Lukin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.aal2538
Subject(s) - spins , nanoscopic scale , materials science , spectroscopy , characterization (materials science) , nanotechnology , diamond , qubit , graphene , spin (aerodynamics) , nuclear quadrupole resonance , atomic units , condensed matter physics , boron nitride , chemical physics , quantum , physics , quantum mechanics , composite material , thermodynamics
Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a promising platform for exploring condensed matter phenomena and developing technological applications. However, the reduction of material dimensions to the atomic scale poses a challenge for traditional measurement and interfacing techniques that typically couple to macroscopic observables. We demonstrate a method for probing the properties of 2D materials via nanometer-scale nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy using individual atomlike impurities in diamond. Coherent manipulation of shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers enables the probing of nanoscale ensembles down to approximately 30 nuclear spins in atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). The characterization of low-dimensional nanoscale materials could enable the development of new quantum hybrid systems, combining atomlike systems coherently coupled with individual atoms in 2D materials.
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