Optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance of carbon-13 in bulk diamond
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2605.00152 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 30 Apr 2026] Title:Optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance of carbon-13 in bulk diamond Authors:Maxwell D. Aiello, Janis Smits, Yaser Silani, Andris Berzins, David Lidsky, Bryan A. Richards, Amilcar Jeronimo Perez, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Sebastián C. Carrasco, Jabir Chathanathil, Michael Goerz, Vladimir Malinovsky, Dmitry Budker, Sean Lourette, Andrey Jarmola, Victor M. Acosta View a PDF of the paper titled Optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance of carbon-13 in bulk diamond, by Maxwell D. Aiello and 15 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Precision measurements based on optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance offer exquisite sensitivity to absolute shifts in spin transition frequencies, with potential applications in fundamental physics experiments and inertial sensing. We investigate 13C nuclear spins in diamond as a candidate system for solid-state implementations, which hold the promise for high-fidelity readout of large numbers of coherent nuclear spins in millitesla or lower magnetic fields. We demonstrate a technique that allows for both optical polarization and readout of large ensembles of ~10^{16} polarized nuclear spins. Our method takes advantage of state-selective Landau-Zener transitions under microwave frequency sweeping, which bidirectionally transfer spin polarization between Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) electron spins and remote 13C nuclear spins. Using natural isotopic abundance diamonds with nitrogen densities of ~0.5-10 ppm, we perform optically-detected 13C Ramsey spectroscopy and realize a nuclear-spin-dependent fluorescence contrast exceeding 0.5% peak-to-peak. We observe nuclear spin dephasing times T2*~2 ms that only modestly improve with homonuclear dipolar decoupling, indicating that they are limited by the longitudinal spin relaxation of nearby NV electron spins. We study the magnetic field dependence of the optical readout and find comparable contrast and dephasing times for magnetic fields in the range 8-20 mT. Our method can be interpreted as a type of repetitive readout, where each NV center optically reads out the spin state of ~100 nuclei before nuclear spins depolarize. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Optics (physics.optics) Cite as: arXiv:2605.00152 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2605.00152v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.00152 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Victor Acosta [view email] [v1] Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:19:37 UTC (11,840 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance of carbon-13 in bulk diamond, by Maxwell D. Aiello and 15 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.mes-hall physics physics.atom-ph physics.ins-det physics.optics References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)