Decoherence and dynamical decoupling control of nitrogen vacancy center electron spins in nuclear spin baths

2011/08/11 by Nan Zhao, Sai-Wah Ho, Ren‐Bao Liu +1 · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Condensed matter physics #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #Dynamical decoupling #Electron #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Nitrogen-vacancy center #Physics #Quantum #Quantum decoherence #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Qubit #Semiconductor materials and devices #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin engineering #Spin polarization #Spins #cond-mat.mes-hall #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.85.115303

published as Phys. Rev. B 85, 115303 (2012) · 18 pages, 17 figures

arxiv created 2011/08/11 · openalex publication_date 2012/03/08 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We theoretically study the decoherence and the dynamical decoupling control of nitrogen vacancy center electron spins in high-purity diamond, where the hyperfine interaction with ¹³C nuclear spins is the dominating decoherence mechanism. The decoherence is formulated as the entanglement between the electron spin and the nuclear spins, which is induced by nuclear spin bath evolution conditioned on the electron spin state. The nuclear spin bath evolution is driven by elementary processes such as single spin precession and pairwise flip flops. The importance of different elementary processes in the decoherence depends on the strength of the external magnetic field.

Citations

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• Coherence of nitrogen-vacancy electronic spin ensembles in diamond
• Quenching Spin Decoherence in Diamond through Spin Bath Polarization

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