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Hybrid quantum device with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond coupled to carbon nanotubes

Quantum Physics 2016-07-22 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We show that nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond interfaced with a suspended carbon nanotube carrying a dc current can facilitate a spin-nanomechanical hybrid device. We demonstrate that strong magnetomechanical interactions between a single NV spin and the vibrational mode of the suspended nanotube can be engineered and dynamically tuned by external control over the system parameters. This spin-nanomechanical setup with strong, \emph{intrinsic} and \emph{tunable} magnetomechanical couplings allows for the construction of hybrid quantum devices with NV centers and carbon-based nanostructures, as well as phonon-mediated quantum information processing with spin qubits.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02998,
  title  = {Hybrid quantum device with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond coupled to carbon nanotubes},
  author = {Peng-Bo Li and Ze-Liang Xiang and Peter Rabl and Franco Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02998},
  year   = {2016}
}

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