Interdisciplinary sensing and spectroscopy
Project areas:
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Optics, Quantum Optics, Atoms, Molecules, Plasmas
Physical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry
Project leaders:
Ulbricht, Ronald, Dr.
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz
Arbeitskreis Molekulare Spektroskopie
Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz
Phone: +49 (0)6131 379-326
ulbricht[a]mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Budker, Dmitry, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Department of Physics (QUANTUM)
Staudingerweg 18, 55099 Mainz
+49 (0)6131-39-29630
budker[a]uni-mainz.de
Summary
The idea of the Q01 cross-cutting project is that, as part of the SFB, we have a multidisciplinary expert team
in the area of sensing and spectroscopy. The team’s expertise includes, as a major constituent, quantum
sensing based on color centers in diamond, but it goes significantly beyond that, extending to areas like
ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy and ultrasensitive atomic magnetometry, among others.
In the course of the preliminary work on the SFB proposal, we have identified a number of specific
characterization challenges across the range of SFB subprojects that the Q01 expert team will help address
in close collaboration with the individual subproject teams.
The composition of the Q01 expert team is as follows:
AG Bonn has expertise in a range of nonlinear optical spectroscopy techniques that can probe properties and ultrafast dynamics of electronic and vibrational modes. These methods can, for instance be used to optically characterize properties of nanodiamonds (NDs) like size and surface functionalization. Here, group leader Ronald Ulbricht as the principal investigator brings expertise in using ultrafast electronic spectroscopy
techniques such as transient absorption spectroscopy and THz time-domain spectroscopy to, for instance,
characterize electronic dynamics of color centers in diamond (P1 - P3). The department also operates a range of nonlinear optical spectroscopy techniques to characterize vibrational properties such as Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) spectroscopy and Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) spectroscopy (P4, P5) that will be employed. One dedicated PhD student will work on the assigned subprojects of AG Bonn.
AG Budker provides expertise in the broad area of ultrasensitive electromagnetic sensing, with extensive
expertise in diamond magnetometry, electric field sensing, thermometry and molecular-force measurements (P6 - P10). One dedicated PhD student will work on the assigned subprojects of AG Budker.
AG Ermakova/Weil has expertise in ND sensing as applied to biological systems and surface functionalization of NDs and is also developing synthesis methods of NDs using high-pressure high-temperature anvil cells. They are going to supply suitable NDs wherever necessary. One Hiwi student will assist with this.
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[P1] Liu, A.; Cundiff, S.T.; Almeida, D.B.; Ulbricht, R.Spectral Broadening and Ultrafast Dynamics of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Ensemble in Diamond.
Materials for Quantum Technologies 2021, 1, 025002 [P2] Ulbricht, R.; Dong, S.; Chang, I.-Y.; Mariserla, B. M. K.; Dani, K. M.; Hyeon-Deuk, K.; Loh, Z.-H.
Jahn-Teller-induced femtosecond electronic depolarization dynamics of the nitrogen-vacancy defect
in diamond. Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 13510 [P3] Ulbricht, R.; Hendry, E.; Shan, J.; Heinz, T. F.; Bonn, M.
Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved Terahertz spectroscopy
Reviews of Modern Physics 2011, 83, 543 [P4] Hosseinpour, S.; Roeters, S. J.; Bonn, M.; Peukert, W.; Woutersen, S.; Weidner, T. Structure and
Dynamics of Interfacial Peptides and Proteins from Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation
Spectroscopy. Chem. Rev., 2020, 120 (7), 3420-3465. [P5] Day, J. P.; Domke, K. F.; Rago, G.; Kano, H.; Hamaguchi, H.-o.; Vartiainen, E. M.; Bonn, M.
Quantitative coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy.J. Phys. Chem B, 2011,
115 (24), 7713-7725. [P6] Acosta, V.; Jarmola, A.; Bauch, E.; Budker, D. Optical properties of the nitrogen-vacancy singlet
levels in diamond. Phys. Rev. B 2010, 82 (20), 201202. [P7] Bourgeois, E.; Jarmola, A.; Siyushev, P.; Gulka, M.; Hruby, J.; Jelezko, F.; Budker, D.; Nesladek,
M.Photoelectric detection of electron spin resonance of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond. Nat.
Commun. 2015, 6 (1), 1-8. [P8] Wickenbrock, A.; Zheng, H.; Bougas, L.; Leefer, N.; Afach, S.; Jarmola, A.; Acosta, V. M.; Budker, D.
Microwave-free magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2016,
109(5), 053505. [P9] Zhang, X.; Chatzidrosos, G.; Hu, Y.; Zheng, H.; Wickenbrock, A.; Jerschow, A.; Budker, D.; Battery
characterization via eddy-current imaging with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond; Appl. Sci.,
2021, 11(7), 3069 [P10] Lenz, T.; Wickenbrock, A.; Jelezko, F.; Balasubramanian, G.; Budker, D.; Magnetic sensing at zero
field with a single nitrogen-vacancy center, Quantum Science and Technology, 2021, 6(3), 034006