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Dark spins in the spotlight

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A single nitrogen–vacancy centre can be used to probe the location of electron spins with subnanometre precision.

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Figure 1: Magnetometry using the nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centre in diamond.
Figure 2: Nano-MRI set-up17.

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  1. Lloyd Hollenberg is in the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, School of Physics University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia,

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