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Quantum coherence of a single NV center in a spin-cavity hybrid system

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Hybrid interfaces between photonic cavities and quantum emitters are promising physical platforms in the fields of quantum sensing, quantum metrology and quantum information processing. Light-matter interaction in these systems can be engineered into the regime of strong coupling and ultrastrong coupling. In this work we experimentally explore the coherent properties of a single solid spin in a hybrid system consisting of a nitrogen-vacancy center in nanodiamond and a metal-dielectric cavity. We statistically characterize the cavity enhancement factor of fluorescence intensity for a group of single nitrogen-vacancy centers. The fluorescence intensity of a single nitrogen-vacancy center can be enhanced in a metal-dielectric cavity with a factor about 3. We measure the relaxation time \(T_1\) and decoherence time \(T_2\) of nitrogen-vacancy centers and show the robustness of spin coherent properties in a cavity. This work shows the possibility of selectively controlling on the optical and spin coherence of a single nitrogen-vacancy center in a nanocavity. The spin-cavity hybrid system can be further used in applications such as quantum sensing and quantum engineering with nitrogen-vacancy centers.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11374280 and No. 50772110). We thank Changfeng Wong for drawing the illustration of a spin-cavity system.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Zhang, Shengran Lin, Liren Lou, Wei Zhu & Guanzhong Wang

  2. Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Zhang, Shengran Lin, Liren Lou, Wei Zhu & Guanzhong Wang

  3. College of Physics, Sichuan University, No.24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu, 610065, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

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JZ and JW proposed the initial idea on this research. JZ and SL designed and performed experiments, analyzed the data. JZ wrote the manuscript with the help of LL. GW and WZ supervised the project.

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Zhang, J., Lin, S., Wang, J. et al. Quantum coherence of a single NV center in a spin-cavity hybrid system. Eur. Phys. J. B 95, 61 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-022-00317-w

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