| Autor: |
Rémi Blinder, Yuliya Mindarava, Thai Hien Tran, Ali Momenzadeh, Sen Yang, Petr Siyushev, Hitoshi Sumiya, Kenji Tamasaku, Taito Osaka, Norio Morishita, Haruki Takizawa, Shinobu Onoda, Hideyuki Hara, Fedor Jelezko, Jörg Wrachtrup, Junichi Isoya |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Communications Materials, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2662-4443 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s43246-024-00660-8 |
| Popis: |
Abstract With their optical addressability of individual spins and long coherence time, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are often called “atom-like solid spin-defects”. As observed with trapped atomic ions, quantum interference mediated by indistinguishable photons was demonstrated between remote NV centers. In high sensitivity DC magnetometry at room temperature, NV ensembles are potentially rivaling with alkali-atom vapor cells. However, local strain induces center-to-center variation of both optical and spin transitions of NV centers. Therefore, advanced engineering of diamond growth toward crystalline perfection is demanded. Here, we report on the synthesis of high-quality HPHT (high-pressure, high-temperature) crystals, demonstrating a small inhomogeneous broadening of the spin transitions, of T 2 * = 1.28 μs, approaching the limit for crystals with natural 13C abundance, that we determine as T 2 * = 1.48 μs. The contribution from strain and local charges to the inhomogeneous broadening is lowered to ~17 kHz full width at half maximum for NV ensemble within a > 10 mm3 volume. Looking at optical transitions in low nitrogen crystals, we examine the variation of zero-phonon-line optical transition frequencies at low temperatures, showing a strain contribution below 2 GHz for a large fraction of single NV centers. |
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