Colossal photon bunching in quasiparticle-mediated nanodiamond cathodoluminescence

Feldman, Matthew A.; Dumitrescu, Eugene F.; Bridges, Denzel; Chisholm, Matthew F.; Davidson, Roderick B.; Evans, Philip G.; Hachtel, Jordan A.; Hu, Anming; Pooser, Raphael C.; Haglund, Richard F.; Lawrie, Benjamin J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.081404

Title: Colossal photon bunching in quasiparticle-mediated nanodiamond cathodoluminescence

Journal Article · Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.081404· OSTI ID:1485008

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Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

Nanoscale control over the second-order photon correlation function g⁽²⁾(τ) is critical to emerging research in nonlinear nanophotonics and integrated quantum information science. Here we report on quasiparticle control of photon bunching with g⁽²⁾(0) > 45 in the cathodoluminescence of nanodiamond nitrogen vacancy (NV⁰) centers excited by a converged electron beam in an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope. Plasmon-mediated NV⁰ cathodoluminescence exhibits a 16-fold increase in luminescence intensity correlated with a threefold reduction in photon bunching compared with that of uncoupled NV⁰ centers. This effect is ascribed to the excitation of single temporally uncorrelated NV⁰ centers by single surface plasmon polaritons. Spectrally resolved Hanbury Brown–Twiss interferometry is employed to demonstrate that the bunching is mediated by the NV⁰ phonon sidebands, while no observable bunching is detected at the zero-phonon line. As a result, the data are consistent with fast phonon-mediated recombination dynamics, a conclusion substantiated by agreement between Bayesian regression and Monte Carlo models of superthermal NV⁰ luminescence.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-01ER45916

OSTI ID:: 1485008

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1421298

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 8; ISSN 2469-9950

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