How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics
Abstract
Recently, there has been much interest in using Group IV elements from the periodic table to fabricate and study XV color centers in diamond, where X=Si, Ge, Sn, or Pb and V is a carbon vacancy. These Group IV color centers have a number of interesting spin and optical properties, which could potentially make them better candidates than NV− centers for important applications in quantum computing and quantum information processing. Unfortunately, the very same ion implantation process that is required to create these XV color centers in diamond necessarily also produces many carbon vacancies (VC), which can form complexes with these color centers (VC−XV) that can dramatically affect the properties of the isolated XV color centers. The main focus of this work is to use density-functional theory to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of the formation of these VC−XV complexes and to suggest experimental ways to impede this process such as varying the Fermi level of the host diamond material through chemical doping or applying an external electrical bias. We also include a discussion of how the simple presence of many VC can negatively impact the spin coherence times (T2) of Group IV color centers through the presence of acousticmore »
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Kuate Defo, Rodrick, Kaxiras, Efthimios, and Richardson, Steven L. How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics. United States: N. p., 2019.
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Kuate Defo, Rodrick, Kaxiras, Efthimios, & Richardson, Steven L. How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123227
Kuate Defo, Rodrick, Kaxiras, Efthimios, and Richardson, Steven L. Mon .
"How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123227.
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title = {How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics},
author = {Kuate Defo, Rodrick and Kaxiras, Efthimios and Richardson, Steven L.},
abstractNote = {Recently, there has been much interest in using Group IV elements from the periodic table to fabricate and study XV color centers in diamond, where X=Si, Ge, Sn, or Pb and V is a carbon vacancy. These Group IV color centers have a number of interesting spin and optical properties, which could potentially make them better candidates than NV− centers for important applications in quantum computing and quantum information processing. Unfortunately, the very same ion implantation process that is required to create these XV color centers in diamond necessarily also produces many carbon vacancies (VC), which can form complexes with these color centers (VC−XV) that can dramatically affect the properties of the isolated XV color centers. The main focus of this work is to use density-functional theory to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of the formation of these VC−XV complexes and to suggest experimental ways to impede this process such as varying the Fermi level of the host diamond material through chemical doping or applying an external electrical bias. We also include a discussion of how the simple presence of many VC can negatively impact the spin coherence times (T2) of Group IV color centers through the presence of acoustic phonons.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5123227},
journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
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volume = 126,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2019}
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