Single defect centres in diamond: A review

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Training Schrödinger’s cat: quantum optimal control (2015, background): “of NV centers in diamond with many potential applications in sensing and quantum information processing [105, 159, 182].”
Magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond (2013, background): “In recent years, however, it has been realized that the NV centre in diamond [14, 15] has exceptional physical properties that render the NV centre a nearly ideal candidate to bring the ideas of Chernobrod and Bergman to reality [16, 17].”
Materials challenges and opportunities for quantum computing hardware (2021, neutral): “Thenitrogenvacancy (NV)centerindiamondisthemostwidely studiedsystembecauseofitslongcoherence timeofseveralmillisecondsatroomtem-perature( 202 , 203 ).”
Sensing electric fields using single diamond spins (2011, background): “Sensitive electric field detection is based on the remarkable properties of the NV centre [10].”
Quantum metrology and its application in biology (2014, background): “Combined with optical addressability, biocompatibility [215], and photostability [216], this presents unique opportunities for biological applications in quantum metrology which we briefly introduce in this Section.”