May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
345 pages
12h 1m
English
L.P. McGuinness, University of Ulm, Germany
The nitrogen–vacancy (NV) center offers unique capabilities for life science research, including the prospect of imaging weak magnetic fields with high spatial resolution under physiological conditions. The detection of such fields is a significant challenge in the life sciences, the solution to which would revolutionize cellular biology by allowing detection of important metabolic processes. Optical measurements of quantum coherent spins show that diamonds can be applied to magnetic imaging of cells. Additional quantum sensing technologies have also emerged, including nanothermometry, rotational tracking and enhanced identification of fluorescent ...