Evaluating probabilistic and data-driven inference models for fiber-coupled NV-diamond temperature sensors

2024-09-14

arXiv.org

AI Summary

This study addresses uncertainty quantification in continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) thermometry using fiber-coupled nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamond sensors. We propose a differentiable probabilistic forward model that explicitly incorporates the temperature dependence of the spin Hamiltonian. Unlike conventional data-driven approaches, our physics-informed model ensures both interpretability and robust extrapolation capability. To our knowledge, this work presents the first systematic comparison of probabilistic modeling versus data-driven methods—including 1D convolutional neural networks (1D-CNN) and principal component regression (PCR)—for temperature inversion. Experiments demonstrate an extrapolation uncertainty of ±1 K over 243–323 K, representing a ~10× improvement over PCR and 1D-CNN; on in-distribution test data, it achieves a state-of-the-art precision of ±0.33 K. The framework establishes a novel, interpretable, and differentiable probabilistic inference paradigm for high-reliability solid-state quantum sensing.

Technology Category

• Machine Learning: Calibration & Uncertainty Quantification
• Reasoning under Uncertainty: Relational Probabilistic Models
• Cognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems: Conceptual Inference and Reasoning

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Abstract

We evaluate the impact of inference model on uncertainties when using continuous wave Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) measurements to infer temperature. Our approach leverages a probabilistic feedforward inference model designed to maximize the likelihood of observed ODMR spectra through automatic differentiation. This model effectively utilizes the temperature dependence of spin Hamiltonian parameters to infer temperature from spectral features in the ODMR data. We achieve prediction uncertainty of $pm$ 1 K across a temperature range of 243 K to 323 K. To benchmark our probabilistic model, we compare it with a non-parametric peak-finding technique and data-driven methodologies such as Principal Component Regression (PCR) and a 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We find that when validated against out-of-sample dataset that encompasses the same temperature range as the training dataset, data driven methods can show uncertainties that are as much as 0.67 K lower without incorporating expert-level understanding of the spectroscopic-temperature relationship. However, our results show that the probabilistic model outperforms both PCR and CNN when tasked with extrapolating beyond the temperature range used in training set, indicating robustness and generalizability. In contrast, data-driven methods like PCR and CNN demonstrate up to ten times worse uncertainties when tasked with extrapolating outside their training data range.

Problem

• Evaluating inference models for NV-diamond temperature sensors
• Comparing probabilistic and data-driven methods for temperature prediction
• Assessing model robustness and generalizability beyond training data range

Innovation

• Probabilistic feedforward model maximizes ODMR spectra likelihood
• Utilizes spin Hamiltonian temperature dependence for inference
• Outperforms PCR and CNN in extrapolation robustness