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Coherent Spin-Photon Interface of single PL6 Color Centers in Silicon Carbide

Quantum Physics 2026-02-09 v1

Abstract

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%99.69 \pm 0.03\% and a readout contrast of 98.31±1.03%98.31 \pm 1.03\%. The spin--photon--entangled A2A_2 transition exhibits narrow optical linewidths (180\sim 180~MHz) and a polarization visibility of 82%\sim 82\%. Coherent optical driving enables Rabi frequencies up to 2.8952.895~GHz, while dynamical decoupling extends the spin coherence time from 0.50.5~ms to 5.705.70~ms. Our results establish PL6 as a competitive solid-state spin--photon interface hosted in a commercially available semiconductor platform.

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@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}
}

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7 pages,4 figures