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Nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond is a solid state defect qubit with favorable coherence time up to room temperature which could be harnessed in several quantum enhanced sensor and quantum communication applications, and has a potential in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Adam Gali

We have theoretically analyzed coherent nuclear-spin dynamics induced by electron transport through a quantum-dot spin valve. The hyperfine interaction between electron and nuclear spins in a quantum dot allows for the transfer of angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Chesi , W. A. Coish

We present a quantum solution to the electron spin decoherence by a nuclear pair-correlation method for the electron-nuclear spin dynamics under a strong magnetic field and a temperature high for the nuclear spins but low for the electron.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Yao , Ren-Bao Liu , L. J. Sham

We present a theoretical analysis of the electron spin decoherence in single Nitrogen-Vacancy defects in ultra-pure diamond. The electron spin decoherence is due to the interactions with Carbon-13 nuclear spins in the diamond lattice. Our…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. R. Maze , J. M. Taylor , M. D. Lukin

Quantum memories provide intermediate storage of quantum information until it is needed for the next step of a quantum algorithm or a quantum communication process. Relevant figures of merit are therefore the fidelity with which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 J. H. Shim , I. Niemeyer , J. Zhang , D. Suter

We consider the decoherence of a single localized electron spin due to its coupling to the lattice nuclear spin bath in a semiconductor quantum computer architecture. In the presence of an external magnetic field and at low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

We propose a way to cool the rotation of a nanodiamond, which contains a NV-center and is levitated by an optical tweezer. Following the rotation of the particle, the NV-center electron spin experiences varying external fields and so leads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Li Ge , Nan Zhao

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

Quantum sensing has seen rapid progress from laboratory research to real-world applications. Solid-state spin systems, particularly nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, are attractive for their ability to operate at room temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jonathan Kenny , Feifei Zhou , Ruihua He , Fedor Jelezko , Teck Seng Koh , Weibo Gao

Spin squeezed entanglement enables metrological precision beyond the classical limit. Understood through the lens of continuous symmetry breaking, dipolar spin systems exhibit the remarkable ability to generate spin squeezing via their…

Decoherence of quantum objects in noisy environments is important in quantum sciences and technologies. It is generally believed that different processes coupled to the same noise source should have similar decoherence behaviors and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Nan Zhao , Zhen-Yu Wang , Ren-Bao Liu

We demonstrate that the spin decoherence of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be suppressed by a transverse magnetic field if the electron spin bath is the primary decoherence source. The NV spin coherence, created in "a…

Investigations of spin squeezing in ensembles of quantum particles have been limited primarily to a subspace of spin fluctuations and a single spatial mode in high-spin and spatially extended ensembles. Here, we show that a wider range of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Jay D. Sau , S. R. Leslie , Marvin L. Cohen , D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Quantum mechanical equations of motion are strictly linear in state descriptors, such as wavefunctions and density matrices, but equations describing chemical kinetics and hydrodynamics may be non-linear in concentrations. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Anupama Acharya , Madhukar Said , Sylwia J. Barker , Marcel Utz , Bruno Linclau , Ilya Kuprov

The nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond is a promising candidate for realizing the spin qubits concept in quantum information. Even though this defect is known for a long time, its electronic structure and other properties have not yet been…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-24 Adam Gali , Maria Fyta , Efthimios Kaxiras

We probe the relaxation dynamics of the full three-level spin system of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to define a $T_{1}$ relaxation time that helps resolve the $T_{2} \leq 2T_{1}$ coherence limit of the NV's subset…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Bryan A. Myers , Amila Ariyaratne , Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

We investigate nuclear spin hyperpolarization from nitrogen vacancy centers in isotopically enriched diamonds with $^{13}$C concentrations up to 100%. $^{13}$C enrichment leads to hyperfine structure of the nitrogen vacancy electron spin…

The dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle coupled to a nuclear spin bath through an isotropic Heisenberg interaction is studied, as a model for the spin decoherence in quantum dots. The time-dependent polarization of the central spin is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-28 D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao , V. Ravishankar , V. Subrahmanyam

Recent experiments demonstrate all-electric spinning of levitated nanodiamonds with embedded nitrogen-vacancy spins. Here, we argue that such gyroscopically stabilized spin rotors offer a promising platform for probing and exploiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Vanessa Wachter , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Gabriel Hétet , Benjamin A. Stickler

We simulate the dynamics of varying density quasi-two-dimensional spin ensembles in solid-state systems, focusing on the nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. We consider the effects of various control sequences on the averaged dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 D. Farfurnik , Y. Horowicz , N. Bar-Gill