Group-III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers
Abstract
Color centers in diamond have emerged as leading solid-state “artificial atoms” for a range of quantum technologies, from quantum sensing to quantum networks. Concerted research activities are now underway to identify new color centers that combine stable spin and optical properties of the nitrogen vacancy (NV–) with the spectral stability of the silicon vacancy (SiV–) centers in diamond, with recent research identifying other group-IV color centers with superior properties. In this paper, we investigate a class of diamond quantum emitters from first principles, the group-III color centers, which we show to be thermodynamically stable in a spin-1, electric-field-insensitive structure. Further, from ab initio electronic structure methods, we characterize the product Jahn-Teller (pJT) effect present in the excited-state manifold of these group-III color centers, where we capture symmetry-breaking distortions associated with strong electron-phonon coupling. These predictions can guide experimental identification of group-III vacancy centers and their use in applications in quantum information science and technology.
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Army Research Office (ARO); German Research Foundation (DFG)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1852883
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019140; AC02-05CH11231; W911NF-18-1-0431; FL 997/1-1; GBMF 8048
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 102; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Materials Science; Physics
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Harris, Isaac, Ciccarino, Christopher J., Flick, Johannes, Englund, Dirk R., and Narang, Prineha. Group-III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.195206.
Harris, Isaac, Ciccarino, Christopher J., Flick, Johannes, Englund, Dirk R., & Narang, Prineha. Group-III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.195206
Harris, Isaac, Ciccarino, Christopher J., Flick, Johannes, Englund, Dirk R., and Narang, Prineha. Tue .
"Group-III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.195206. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1852883.
@article{osti_1852883,
title = {Group-III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers},
author = {Harris, Isaac and Ciccarino, Christopher J. and Flick, Johannes and Englund, Dirk R. and Narang, Prineha},
abstractNote = {Color centers in diamond have emerged as leading solid-state “artificial atoms” for a range of quantum technologies, from quantum sensing to quantum networks. Concerted research activities are now underway to identify new color centers that combine stable spin and optical properties of the nitrogen vacancy (NV–) with the spectral stability of the silicon vacancy (SiV–) centers in diamond, with recent research identifying other group-IV color centers with superior properties. In this paper, we investigate a class of diamond quantum emitters from first principles, the group-III color centers, which we show to be thermodynamically stable in a spin-1, electric-field-insensitive structure. Further, from ab initio electronic structure methods, we characterize the product Jahn-Teller (pJT) effect present in the excited-state manifold of these group-III color centers, where we capture symmetry-breaking distortions associated with strong electron-phonon coupling. These predictions can guide experimental identification of group-III vacancy centers and their use in applications in quantum information science and technology.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.102.195206},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 19,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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