The nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond

MW Doherty; NB Manson; P Delaney; F Jelezko; J Wrachtrup; LCL Hollenberg

Journal article

The nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond

MW Doherty, NB Manson, P Delaney, F Jelezko, J Wrachtrup, LCL Hollenberg

Physics Reports | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2013.02.001

Abstract

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond is an important physical system for emergent quantum technologies, including quantum metrology, information processing and communications, as well as for various nanotechnologies, such as biological and sub-diffraction limit imaging, and for tests of entanglement in quantum mechanics. Given this array of existing and potential applications and the almost 50 years of NV research, one would expect that the physics of the centre is well understood, however, the study of the NV centre has proved challenging, with many early assertions now believed false and many remaining issues yet to be resolved. This review represents the first time that the ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council under the Discovery Project scheme (DP0986635 and DP120102232), the EU commission (ERC grant SQUTEC), Specific Targeted Research Project DIAMANT and the integrated project SOLID. M.W.D. wishes to acknowledge the David Hay Memorial Fund.