Accepted Wednesday Oct 21, 2009
Isolated nuclear spins provide a promising building block for quantum information science, motivating development of techniques to characterize, control, and detect them in suitable systems. Working with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, we demonstrate robust initialization, manipulation, and readout of individual 13C, 15N, and 14N nuclear spins, and identify a mechanism to extend our results to arbitrary magnetic field environments. These techniques enable precise characterization of nuclear spin hyperfine parameters and coherence properties, and may pave the way for nuclear spin based quantum information architectures in diamond.