Quantum Sensing

The Focus Group around Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Dominik Bucher is interested in the application of quantum sensors in chemistry. For this purpose, we use color centers in diamond, which have been shown to be outstanding atomic-scale sensors for magnetic fields. With these spin defects in diamond – more precisely nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers – nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals from a few cubic nanometer sample volumes or even single molecules can be detected, unreachable with conventional sensors. The applications of our new technology range from single-cell analysis in microfluidics to the characterization of surfaces and novel materials in the field of e-conversion.

Publications by the Focus Group

2025

Briegel, Karl D.; Draeger, Julia C.; Bucher, Dominik B.: Kernspinresonanz: Das erste optische Kernspinresonanz‐Mikroskop. Physik in unserer Zeit 56 (4), 2025, 166-167 mehr…
Briegel, Karl D.; von Grafenstein, Nick R.; Draeger, Julia C.; Blümler, Peter; Allert, Robin D.; Bucher, Dominik B.: Optical widefield nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2025 mehr…
Kufner, Corinna L.; Krebs, Stefan; Fischaleck, Marlis; Philippou-Massier, Julia; Blum, Helmut; Bucher, Dominik B.; Braun, Dieter; Zinth, Wolfgang; Mast, Christof B.: Selection of Early Life Codons by Ultraviolet Light. ACS Central Science 11 (1), 2025, 147-156 mehr…
Noda, Kasane; Prananto, Dwi; Meng, Kun; Allert, Robin D.; Bucher, Dominik B.; An, Toshu: Spin properties of shallow ensemble nitrogen-vacancy centers in a <sup>12</sup>C-enriched diamond surface layer. Applied Physics Express 18 (7), 2025, 072003 mehr…
Pollok, Stefan; Khoshkalam, Mohamad; Ghaffari-Tabrizi, Fardin; Kurnia, Fran; Wang, Danni; Li, Siqi; Bucher, Dominik B.; Rupp, Jennifer L. M.; Christensen, Dennis V.: Magnetic microscopy for operando imaging of battery dynamics. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2025 mehr…

2024

Hermann, Jens C.; Rizzato, Roberto; Bruckmaier, Fleming; Allert, Robin D.; Blank, Aharon; Bucher, Dominik B.: Extending radiowave frequency detection range with dressed states of solid-state spin ensembles. npj Quantum Information 10 (1), 2024 mehr…
Leibold, Joachim P.; von Grafenstein, Nick R.; Chen, Xiaoxun; Müller, Linda; Briegel, Karl D.; Bucher, Dominik B.: Time-space encoded readout for noise suppression and scalable scanning in optically active solid-state spin systems. , 2024 mehr…

2023

Amrein, Philipp; Bruckmaier, Fleming; Jia, Feng; Bucher, Dominik B.; Zaitsev, Maxim; Littin, Sebastian: Optimal bi-planar gradient coil configurations for diamond nitrogen-vacancy based diffusion-weighted NMR experiments. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine 36 (6), 2023, 921-932 mehr…
Arunkumar, Nithya; Olsson, Kevin S.; Oon, Jner Tzern; Hart, Connor A.; Bucher, Dominik B.; Glenn, David R.; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Park, Hongkun; Ham, Donhee; Walsworth, Ronald L.: Quantum Logic Enhanced Sensing in Solid-State Spin Ensembles. Physical Review Letters 131 (10), 2023 mehr…
Bruckmaier, Fleming; Allert, Robin D.; Neuling, Nick R.; Amrein, Philipp; Littin, Sebastian; Briegel, Karl D.; Schätzle, Philip; Knittel, Peter; Zaitsev, Maxim; Bucher, Dominik B.: Imaging local diffusion in microstructures using NV-based pulsed field gradient NMR. Science Advances 9 (33), 2023 mehr…
Freire-Moschovitis, Fabian A.; Rizzato, Roberto; Pershin, Anton; Schepp, Moritz R.; Allert, Robin D.; Todenhagen, Lina M.; Brandt, Martin S.; Gali, Adam; Bucher, Dominik B.: The Role of Electrolytes in the Relaxation of Near-Surface Spin Defects in Diamond. ACS Nano 17 (11), 2023, 10474-10485 mehr…
Kufner, Corinna L.; Krebs, Stefan; Fischaleck, Marlis; Philippou-Massier, Julia; Blum, Helmut; Bucher, Dominik B.; Braun, Dieter; Zinth, Wolfgang; Mast, Christof B.: Sequence dependent UV damage of complete pools of oligonucleotides. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 2023 mehr…
Neuling, Nick Ruben; Allert, Robin Derek; Bucher, Dominik Benjamin: Prospects of Single-Cell NMR Spectroscopy with Quantum Sensors. , 2023 mehr…
Rizzato, Roberto; von Grafenstein, Nick R.; Bucher, Dominik B.: Quantum sensors in diamonds for magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Current applications and future prospects. Applied Physics Letters 123 (26), 2023 mehr…

2022

Kufner, Corinna L.; Bucher, Dominik B.; Sasselov, Dimitar D.: The Photophysics of Nucleic Acids: Consequences for the Emergence of Life. ChemSystemsChem 5 (1), 2022 mehr…
Rizzato, Roberto; Schalk, Martin; Mohr, Stephan; Leibold, Joachim P.; Hermann, Jens C.; Bruckmaier, Fleming; Ji, Peirui; Astakhov, Georgy V.; Kentsch, Ulrich; Helm, Manfred; Stier, Andreas V.; Finley, Jonathan J.; Bucher, Dominik B.: Extending the coherence time of spin defects in hBN enables advanced qubit control and quantum sensing. , 2022 mehr…

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