Coherent, mechanical control of a single electronic spin
| Autor: | Amir Yacoby, Mikhail D. Lukin, Michael Grinolds, Sungkun Hong, Patrick Maletinsky, Ronald L. Walsworth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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FOS: Physical sciences Bioengineering Resonator symbols.namesake Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) General Materials Science Quantum information education Spin-½ Physics education.field_of_study Quantum Physics Zeeman effect Spins Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics business.industry Mechanical Engineering General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Coherent control symbols Optoelectronics Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons business Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Magnetic dipole |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1823 |
| Popis: | The ability to control and manipulate spins via electrical, magnetic and optical means has generated numerous applications in metrology and quantum information science in recent years. A promising alternative method for spin manipulation is the use of mechanical motion, where the oscillation of a mechanical resonator can be magnetically coupled to a spins magnetic dipole, which could enable scalable quantum information architectures9 and sensitive nanoscale magnetometry. To date, however, only population control of spins has been realized via classical motion of a mechanical resonator. Here, we demonstrate coherent mechanical control of an individual spin under ambient conditions using the driven motion of a mechanical resonator that is magnetically coupled to the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond. Coherent control of this hybrid mechanical/spin system is achieved by synchronizing pulsed spin-addressing protocols (involving optical and radiofrequency fields) to the motion of the driven oscillator, which allows coherent mechanical manipulation of both the population and phase of the spin via motion-induced Zeeman shifts of the NV spins energy. We demonstrate applications of this coherent mechanical spin-control technique to sensitive nanoscale scanning magnetometry. Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures |
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