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All-optical and microwave-free detection of Meissner screening using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Paone, D.
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Pinto, D.  
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Kim, G.
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January 14, 2021
Journal Of Applied Physics

Microscopic studies on thin film superconductors play an important role for probing non-equilibrium phase transitions and revealing dynamics at the nanoscale. However, magnetic sensors with nanometer scale spatial and picosecond temporal resolution are essential for exploring these. Here, we present an all-optical, microwave-free method that utilizes the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond as a non-invasive quantum sensor and enables the spatial detection of the Meissner state in a superconducting thin film. We place an NV implanted diamond membrane on a 20 nm thick superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) thin film with T-c of 34 K. The strong B-field dependence of the NV photoluminescence allows us to investigate the Meissner screening in LSCO under an externally applied magnetic field of 4.2mT in a non-resonant manner. The magnetic field profile along the LSCO thin film can be reproduced using Brandt's analytical model, revealing a critical current density j(c) of 1.4 x 10(8) A/cm(2). Our work can be potentially extended further with a combination of optical pump probe spectroscopy for the local detection of time-resolved dynamical phenomena in nanomagnetic materials.

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research article
DOI
10.1063/5.0037414
Web of Science ID

WOS:000609822000001

Author(s)
Paone, D.
Pinto, D.  
Kim, G.
Feng, L.
Kim, M-J
Stoehr, R.
Singha, A.
Kaiser, S.
Logvenov, G.
Keimer, B.
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Date Issued

2021-01-14

Publisher

AMER INST PHYSICS

Published in
Journal Of Applied Physics
Volume

129

Issue

2

Article Number

024306

Subjects

Physics, Applied

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Physics

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t-c

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superconductivity

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la2-xsrxcuo4

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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