Unambiguous nuclear spin detection using an engineered quantum sensing sequence

作者:Shu, Zijun; Zhang, Zhendong; Cao, Qingyun; Yang, Pengcheng; Plenio, Martin B.; Mueller, Christoph; Lang, Johannes; Tomek, Nikolas; Naydenov, Boris; McGuinness, Liam P.; Jelezko, Fedor; Cai, Jianming*
来源:Physical Review A, 2017, 96(5): 051402.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.051402

摘要

Sensing, localizing, and identifying individual nuclear spins or frequency components of a signal in the presence of a noisy environment requires the development of robust and selective methods of dynamical decoupling. An important challenge that remains to be addressed in this context are spurious higher-order resonances in current dynamical decoupling sequences as they can lead to the misidentification of nuclei or of different frequency components of external signals. Here we overcome this challenge with engineered quantum sensing sequences that achieve both enhanced robustness and the simultaneous suppression of higher-order-harmonic resonances. We experimentally demonstrate the principle using a single nitrogen-vacancy center spin sensor which we apply to the unambiguous detection of external protons.