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Super-resolution Imaging of the Bacterial Division Machinery
Published on: January 21, 2013
Correlated noise in Brownian motion allows for super resolution
Santiago Oviedo-Casado1, Amit Rotem2, Ramil Nigmatullin3
1Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Israel. oviedo.cs@mail.huji.ac.il.
Abstract:
Diffusion broadening of spectral lines is the main limitation to frequency resolution in non-polarized liquid state nano-NMR. This problem arises from the limited amount of information that can be extracted from the signal before losing coherence. For liquid state NMR as with most generic sensing experiments, the signal is thought to decay exponentially, severely limiting resolution. However, there is theoretical evidence that predicts a power law decay of the signal's correlations due to diffusion noise in the non-polarized nano-NMR scenario. In this work we show that in the NV based nano-NMR setup such diffusion noise results in high spectral resolution.
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