TY - JOUR
T1 - Three-dimensional localization spectroscopy of individual nuclear spins with sub-Angstrom resolution
AU - Zopes, J.
AU - Cujia, K. S.
AU - Sasaki, K.
AU - Boss, J. M.
AU - Itoh, K. M.
AU - Degen, C. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Jyh-Pin Chou, Adam Gali, A. Nizovtsev, and Fedor Jelezko for sharing DFT data, and Julien Armijo, Kevin Chang, Nils Hauff, Konstantin Herb, Takuya Segawa, and Tim Taminiau for helpful discussions. This work was supported by Swiss NSF Project Grant 200021_137520, the NCCR QSIT, and the DIADEMS 611143 and ASTERIQS 820394 programs of the European Commission. The work at Keio has been supported by JSPS KAKENHI (S) No. 26220602, JSPS Core-to-Core, and Spin-RNJ.
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PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the chemical composition and molecular structure of materials. At the nanometer scale, NMR has the prospect of mapping the atomic-scale structure of individual molecules, provided a method that can sensitively detect single nuclei and measure inter-atomic distances. Here, we report on precise localization spectroscopy experiments of individual 13 C nuclear spins near the central electronic sensor spin of a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a diamond chip. By detecting the nuclear free precession signals in rapidly switchable external magnetic fields, we retrieve the three-dimensional spatial coordinates of the nuclear spins with sub-Angstrom resolution and for distances beyond 10 Å. We further show that the Fermi contact contribution can be constrained by measuring the nuclear g-factor enhancement. The presented method will be useful for mapping atomic positions in single molecules, an ambitious yet important goal of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
AB - Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the chemical composition and molecular structure of materials. At the nanometer scale, NMR has the prospect of mapping the atomic-scale structure of individual molecules, provided a method that can sensitively detect single nuclei and measure inter-atomic distances. Here, we report on precise localization spectroscopy experiments of individual 13 C nuclear spins near the central electronic sensor spin of a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a diamond chip. By detecting the nuclear free precession signals in rapidly switchable external magnetic fields, we retrieve the three-dimensional spatial coordinates of the nuclear spins with sub-Angstrom resolution and for distances beyond 10 Å. We further show that the Fermi contact contribution can be constrained by measuring the nuclear g-factor enhancement. The presented method will be useful for mapping atomic positions in single molecules, an ambitious yet important goal of nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-018-07121-0
DO - 10.1038/s41467-018-07121-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 30410050
AN - SCOPUS:85056273593
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 9
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4678
ER -