Tuning a Spin Bath through the Quantum-Classical Transition
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We study decoherence of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center induced by the 13C nuclear spin bath of diamond. By comparing Hahn-Echo experiments on single and double-quantum transitions of the NV triplet ground state we demonstrate that this bath can be tuned into two different regimes. At low magnetic fields, the nuclei behave as a quantum bath which causes decoherence by entangling with the NV central spin. At high magnetic fields, the bath behaves as a source of classical magnetic field noise, which creates decoherence by imprinting a random phase on the NV central spin.
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For the PCC-N-V system, the optical transition dipole moment d∼4×10^-30 C·m and typical transition frequency ω0∼2.9 PHz lead to β∼1 GHz.
“For the relevant experimental parameters, the optical transition dipole moment and the typical transition frequency of the N-V center are observed to be d ∼ 4 × 10 -30 C · m [31, 32] and ω 0 ∼ 2 . 9PHz [33], which lead to β ∼ 1GHz .”
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- Authors
- Reinhard, F., Shi, F., Zhao, N., Rempp, F., Naydenov, B., Meijer, J., Hall, L. T., Hollenberg, L., Du, J., Liu, R.-B., & Wrachtrup, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Stuttgart (DE)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2012-05-15
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 200402-200402
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1985639963
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- FWCI
- 3.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Keywords
- nitrogen-vacancy centers, diamond, decoherence, quantum-to-classical transition, Hahn echo, double quantum transitions, central spin, magnetic noise, quantum entanglement
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