Ion channel monitoring with quantum annotechnology

摘要

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in nanodia mond is an atomic defect that creates a single accessible electron spin. Small electronic and magnetic forces influence the quantum prop erties of this spin in predictable patterns that produce related changes in the NV center's emission of light. Because the nanodiamond housing NV centers are nontoxic, research ers have proposed that they could be used as biological sensors, but until now, little was known regarding how a NV-based probe might behave in a complex biological environment.