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Electrical and optical control of single spins integrated in scalable semiconductor devices

Quantum Physics 2019-12-12 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

Spin defects in silicon carbide have exceptional electron spin coherence with a near-infrared spin-photon interface in a material amenable to modern semiconductor fabrication. Leveraging these advantages, we successfully integrate highly coherent single neutral divacancy spins in commercially available p-i-n structures and fabricate diodes to modulate the local electrical environment of the defects. These devices enable deterministic charge state control and broad Stark shift tuning exceeding 850 GHz. Surprisingly, we show that charge depletion results in a narrowing of the optical linewidths by over 50 fold, approaching the lifetime limit. These results demonstrate a method for mitigating the ubiquitous problem of spectral diffusion in solid-state emitters by engineering the electrical environment while utilizing classical semiconductor devices to control scalable spin-based quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08328,
  title  = {Electrical and optical control of single spins integrated in scalable semiconductor devices},
  author = {Christopher P. Anderson and Alexandre Bourassa and Kevin C. Miao and Gary Wolfowicz and Peter J. Mintun and Alexander L. Crook and Hiroshi Abe and Jawad Ul Hassan and Nguyen T. Son and Takeshi Ohshima and David D. Awschalom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08328},
  year   = {2019}
}

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20 pages, 5 figures