Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12533v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:52:27 GMT
• Title: Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource
• Authors: Jared Rovny, Shimon Kolkowitz, Nathalie P. de Leon,
• Abstract summary: We describe protocols to use optically unresolved NV center pairs and nuclear spins as multi-qubit sensors for correlated measuring noise.<n>For length scales around 10 nm, we create maximally entangled Bell states through dipole-di coupling two NV centers.<n>This changes the scaling sensitivity with readout noise from quadratic to linear.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely deployed as local magnetic sensors, using coherent, single qubit control to measure both time-averaged fields and noise with nanoscale spatial resolution. Moving beyond single qubits to multi-qubit control enables new sensing modalities such as measuring nonlocal spatiotemporal correlators, or using entangled states to improve measurement sensitivity. Here, we describe protocols to use optically unresolved NV center pairs and nuclear spins as multi-qubit sensors for measuring correlated noise, enabling covariance magnetometry at nanometer length scales. For NV centers that are optically unresolved but have spectrally resolved spin transitions, we implement a phase-cycling protocol that disambiguates magnetic correlations from variance fluctuations by alternating the relative spin orientations of the two NV centers. For NV centers that are both optically and spectrally unresolved, we leverage the presence of a third qubit, a 13C nucleus that is strongly coupled to one of the NV centers, to effect coherent single-NV spin flips and enable a similar phase-cycling protocol. For length scales around 10 nm, we create maximally entangled Bell states through dipole-dipole coupling between two NV centers, and use these entangled states to directly read out the magnetic field correlation, rather than reconstructing it from independent measurements of unentangled NV centers. Importantly, this changes the scaling of sensitivity with readout noise from quadratic to linear. For conventional off-resonant readout of the NV center spin state (for which the readout noise is roughly 30 times the quantum projection limit), this results in a dramatic sensitivity improvement. Finally, we demonstrate methods for the detection of high spatial- and temporal-resolution correlators with pairs of strongly interacting NV centers.

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