Electron spins at N-V centers, can be manipulated by applying a magnetic field, electric field, microwave radiation or light, or a combination, resulting in sharp resonances in the intensity and wavelength of the photoluminescence.
An individual N-V center can be viewed as a basic unit of a quantum computer, and it has potential applications in novel, more efficient fields of electronics and computational science including quantum cryptography and spintronics.
Publications
- Maletinsky: Low-Loss Broadband Antenna for Efficient Photon Collection from a Coherent Spin in Diamond
- Yiwen Chu: Quantum optics with atom-like systems in diamond
- Michael J. Burek, Yiwen Chu, Madelaine S. Z. Liddy, Parth Patel, Jake Rochman, Srujan Meesala, Wooyoung Hong, Qimin Quan, Mikhail D. Lukin & Marko Lončar : “High quality-factor optical nanocavities in bulk single-crystal diamond” – free full version here
- Birgit J. M. Hausmann, B. J. Shields, Q. Quan, Y. Chu, N. P. de Leon, R. Evans, M. J. Burek, A. S. Zibrov, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, H. Park, M. D. Lukin, and M. Loncař: “Coupling of NV Centers to Photonic Crystal Nanobeams in Diamond”
