Nanoscale detection of a single fundamental charge in ambient conditions using the NV - Center in diamond

Florian Dolde; Marcus W. Doherty; Julia Michl; Ingmar Jakobi; Boris Naydenov; Sebastien Pezzagna; Jan Meijer; Philipp Neumann; Fedor Jelezko; Neil B. Manson; Jörg Wrachtrup

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.097603

Nanoscale detection of a single fundamental charge in ambient conditions using the NV - Center in diamond

Florian Dolde, Marcus W. Doherty, Julia Michl, Ingmar Jakobi, Boris Naydenov, Sebastien Pezzagna, Jan Meijer, Philipp Neumann, Fedor Jelezko, Neil B. Manson, Jörg Wrachtrup

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Abstract

Single charge nanoscale detection in ambient conditions is a current frontier in metrology that has diverse interdisciplinary applications. Here, such single charge detection is demonstrated using two nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. One NV center is employed as a sensitive electrometer to detect the change in electric field created by the displacement of a single electron resulting from the optical switching of the other NV center between its neutral (NV0) and negative (NV-) charge states. As a consequence, our measurements also provide direct insight into the charge dynamics inside the material.

Original language	English
Article number	097603
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	112
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.097603
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2014

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