The PL6 color center in silicon carbide has recently emerged as a promising platform for quantum information processing, yet its coherent spin--photon interface has remained largely unexplored. Here we present a comprehensive investigation of single PL6 centers, combining spectroscopy with theoretical analysis. The excited-state fine structure is fully resolved using group-theoretical modeling and strain-dependent measurements. Under resonant excitation, we achieve a spin initialization fidelity of 99.69±0.03% and a readout contrast of 98.31±1.03%. The spin--photon--entangled A2 transition exhibits narrow optical linewidths (∼180~MHz) and a polarization visibility of ∼82%. Coherent optical driving enables Rabi frequencies up to 2.895~GHz, while dynamical decoupling extends the spin coherence time from 0.5~ms to 5.70~ms. Our results establish PL6 as a competitive solid-state spin--photon interface hosted in a commercially available semiconductor platform.
@article{arxiv.2602.06421,
title = {Coherent Spin-Photon Interface of single PL6 Color Centers in Silicon Carbide},
author = {Zhen-Xuan He and Gergő Thiering and Rui-Jian Liang and Ji-Yang Zhou and Shuo Ren and Wu-Xi Lin and Zhi-He Hao and Qi-Cheng Hu and Jun-Feng Wang and Adam Gali and Jin-Shi Xu and Chuan-Feng Li and Guang-Can Guo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06421},
year = {2026}
}