Low-field all-optical detection of superconductivity using NV nanodiamonds

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Main Authors: Dhungel, Omkar, Sengottuvel, Saravanan, Mrozek, Mariusz, Lenz, Till, Bar-Gill, Nir, Wojciechowski, Adam M., Wickenbrock, Arne, Budker, Dmitry
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author Dhungel, Omkar
Sengottuvel, Saravanan
Mrozek, Mariusz
Lenz, Till
Bar-Gill, Nir
Wojciechowski, Adam M.
Wickenbrock, Arne
Budker, Dmitry
author_facet Dhungel, Omkar
Sengottuvel, Saravanan
Mrozek, Mariusz
Lenz, Till
Bar-Gill, Nir
Wojciechowski, Adam M.
Wickenbrock, Arne
Budker, Dmitry
contents Nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamond offer a microwave-free, noninvasive platform for probing superconductors via near zero-field cross-relaxation magnetometry. We demonstrate this by depositing nanodiamonds on YBCO thin films to measure critical parameters: transition temperature and penetration field. This method leverages nanodiamond fluorescence modulation as a result of magnetic field variation with 1mT amplitude to observe the Meissner effect and field scans to measure the penetration field. The approach is minimally invasive and can be applied to superconducting samples with rough surfaces, facilitating the study of flux vortices and critical phenomena in complex geometries.
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spellingShingle Low-field all-optical detection of superconductivity using NV nanodiamonds
Dhungel, Omkar
Sengottuvel, Saravanan
Mrozek, Mariusz
Lenz, Till
Bar-Gill, Nir
Wojciechowski, Adam M.
Wickenbrock, Arne
Budker, Dmitry
Superconductivity
Materials Science
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamond offer a microwave-free, noninvasive platform for probing superconductors via near zero-field cross-relaxation magnetometry. We demonstrate this by depositing nanodiamonds on YBCO thin films to measure critical parameters: transition temperature and penetration field. This method leverages nanodiamond fluorescence modulation as a result of magnetic field variation with 1mT amplitude to observe the Meissner effect and field scans to measure the penetration field. The approach is minimally invasive and can be applied to superconducting samples with rough surfaces, facilitating the study of flux vortices and critical phenomena in complex geometries.
title Low-field all-optical detection of superconductivity using NV nanodiamonds
topic Superconductivity
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11920