范德瓦尔斯力
显微镜
凝聚态物理
宏观量子现象
量子传感器
异质结
磁性
纳米技术
物理
量子
磁力显微镜
材料科学
量子技术
磁场
量子力学
开放量子系统
磁化
光学
分子
作者
A. J. Healey,Sam C. Scholten,Tieshan Yang,John Scott,G. J. Abrahams,I. O. Robertson,Xianfei Hou,Yanfeng Guo,Saidur Rahman,Yuerui Lu,Mehran Kianinia,Igor Aharonovich,J.‐P. Tetienne
出处
期刊:Nature Physics
[Springer Nature]
日期:2022-11-07
卷期号:19 (1): 87-91
被引量:34
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41567-022-01815-5
摘要
Quantum microscopes based on solid-state spin quantum sensors have recently emerged as powerful tools for probing material properties and physical processes in regimes not accessible to classical sensors, especially on the nanoscale. Such microscopes have already found utility in a variety of problems, from imaging magnetism and charge transport in nanoscale devices, to mapping remanent magnetic fields from ancient rocks and biological organisms. However, applications of quantum microscopes have so far relied on sensors hosted in a rigid, three-dimensional crystal, typically diamond, which limits their ability to closely interact with the sample under study. Here we demonstrate a versatile and robust quantum microscope using quantum sensors embedded within a thin layer of a van der Waals (vdW) material, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). To showcase the capabilities of this platform, we assemble several active vdW heterostructures, with an hBN layer acting as the quantum sensor. We demonstrate time-resolved, simultaneous temperature and magnetic imaging near the Curie temperature of a vdW ferromagnet as well as apply this unique microscope to map out charge currents and Joule heating in graphene. By enabling intimate proximity between sensor and sample, potentially down to a single atomic layer, the hBN quantum sensor represents a paradigm shift for nanoscale quantum sensing and microscopy. Moreover, given the ubiquitous use of hBN in modern materials and condensed matter physics research, we expect our technique to find rapid and broad adoption in these fields, further motivated by the prospect of performing in-situ chemical analysis and noise spectroscopy using advanced quantum sensing protocols.
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