Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Many-body dynamics constitutes a promising approach for creating correlations between quantum particles which can be used for applications in sensing and metrology. However, utilizing this potential for substantial gains in practical settings is a challenging task with only a very few applications realized to date. Here, we demonstrate an approach to nanoscale magnetic sensing enabled by strongly interacting electronic spins in a room temperature solid. By coherently controlling collective many-body dynamics of a dipolar ensemble of $\sim 10^4$ nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond with pulsed magnetic field gradients, we demonstrate practical metrological gain up to $7.9(2)\,\mathrm{dB}$ for magnetic signal detection and $8.8(3)\,\mathrm{dB}$ for magnetic noise sensing, fully accounting for experimental overheads. Finally, we combine these methods to demonstrate a momentum-space-resolved sensing modality that enables detection of spatially correlated magnetic noise at continuously tunable length scales down to 50 nanometers. These observations open the door toward practical applications of interaction-enhanced quantum sensors for nanoscale biological imaging and material characterization.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University, Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Materials Research, California NanoSystems Institute, Army Research Office
Awards: G1286236842, G1314494723, G1797871914, G1863003419, G2045646697, G24481445, G2450830071, G2758699378, QLCI-CI: NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computing, G3083819904, G3236695045, G325663671, G3967535168, G4250104368, G42916606, G4639932191, G4796240486, G493656753, G501274426, Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), G5884252700, Physics and Applications of Quantum Nanophotonics Systems, G5975534213, G6512159266, G6692005437, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UCSB, G7437795455, G7452299184, Enabling Quantum Leap: Q-AMASE-i: Quantum Foundry at UCSB, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W7208710479