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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of an atomically thin material using a single-spin qubit

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Publication Date2017-01-20
JournalScience
AuthorsIgor Lovchinsky, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Elana Urbach, Soonwon Choi, Shiang Fang
InstitutionsNational Institute for Materials Science, Harvard University
Citations146

Getting a sense of atomically thin materials Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides provide a powerful platform for optoelectronic applications. As the materials get thinner, however, characterizing the electronic properties can present an experimental challenge. Lovchinsky et al. demonstrate that atomic-like impurities in diamond can be used to probe the properties of 2D materials by nanometer-scale nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy. Coherent manipulation of shallow nitrogen-vacancy color centers enabled probing of nanoscale ensembles down to several tens of nuclear spins in atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride. Science , this issue p. 503