Coherent Control of Nanoscale Nuclear Spin Ensembles in the Spin Noise Regime

Quantum Physics [Submitted on 10 Apr 2026] Coherent Control of Nanoscale Nuclear Spin Ensembles in the Spin Noise Regime Ana Martin, Roberto Rizzato, Carlos Munuera-Javaloy, Dileep Singh, Dominik B. Bucher, Jorge Casanova Spin defects in solids, such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, have emerged as a key tool for detecting nuclear spins at the nanoscale. While active nuclear spin control via radio-frequency (RF) irradiation is often unnecessary for standard spin-noise detection, it becomes essential for advanced protocols like multidimensional nanoscale NMR. In this work, we investigate nuclear spin control using correlation spectroscopy techniques. We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that the resulting nuclear spin dynamics depend critically on the initial RF phase and its orientation relative to the NV crystalline axis. Depending on these parameters, identical nuclear rotations can yield full, partial, or even vanishing contrast in the NV readout. These findings highlight a previously underappreciated aspect of spin manipulation in the spin-noise regime: the link between the phase and direction of the applied RF field and its direct impact on correlation-based experiments. Consequently, imperfect calibration of these parameters can lead to ambiguous signal contrasts and misinterpretation of the underlying nuclear spin dynamics. Our results provide deeper insight into nanoscale spin control and pave the way toward reliable multidimensional spin resonance experiments. Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures and 3 appendices Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) Cite as: arXiv:2604.09310 [quant-ph]   (or arXiv:2604.09310v1 [quant-ph] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.09310 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Jorge Casanova [view email] [v1] Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:20:56 UTC (699 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: quant-ph < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.mes-hall References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)