Narrow-bandwidth sensing of high-frequency fields with continuous dynamical decoupling

被引：54

作者：

Stark, Alexander ^{[1
,2
]}

Aharon, Nati ^{[3
]}

Unden, Thomas ^{[2
]}

Louzon, Daniel ^{[2
,3
]}

Huck, Alexander ^{[1
]}

Retzker, Alex ^{[3
]}

Andersen, Ulrik L. ^{[1
]}

Jelezko, Fedor ^{[2
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Tech Univ Denmark, Dept Phys, DK-2800 Fysikvej, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

[2] Ulm Univ, Inst Quantum Opt, Albert Einstein Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany

[3] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel

[4] Ulm Univ, Ctr Integrated Quantum Sci & Technol IQst, D-89081 Ulm, Germany

来源：

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 2017年 / 8卷

基金：

以色列科学基金会;

关键词：

QUANTUM; COHERENCE; MICROWAVE; NOISE;

D O I：

10.1038/s41467-017-01159-2

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

State-of-the-art methods for sensing weak AC fields are only efficient in the low frequency domain (<10 MHz). The inefficiency of sensing high-frequency signals is due to the lack of ability to use dynamical decoupling. In this paper we show that dynamical decoupling can be incorporated into high-frequency sensing schemes and by this we demonstrate that the high sensitivity achieved for low frequency can be extended to the whole spectrum. While our scheme is general and suitable to a variety of atomic and solid-state systems, we experimentally demonstrate it with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. For a diamond with natural abundance of C-13, we achieve coherence times up to 1.43 ms resulting in a smallest detectable magnetic field strength of 4 nT at 1.6 GHz. Attributed to the inherent nature of our scheme, we observe an additional increase in coherence time due to the signal itself.

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