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Imaging the local charge environment of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
P. BhattacharyyaP. BhattacharyyaSoonwon ChoiDmitry BudkerDmitry BudkerChong ZuFrancisco MachadoThomas MittigaSatcher HsiehSatcher HsiehNicholas Z. RuiNorman Y. YaoNorman Y. YaoAndrey JarmolaAndrey JarmolaBryce KobrinBryce Kobrinsubject
General PhysicsGeneral Physics and AstronomyFOS: Physical sciences02 engineering and technologyengineering.material01 natural sciencesquant-phElectric fieldVacancy defect0103 physical sciencescond-mat.mes-hallMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)Diamond cubic010306 general physicsSpin (physics)PhysicsQuantum PhysicsCondensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsCondensed matter physicsDiamondCharge (physics)021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyDark statePhysical Sciencesengineering0210 nano-technologyQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Order of magnitudedescription
Characterizing the local internal environment surrounding solid-state spin defects is crucial to harnessing them as nanoscale sensors of external fields. This is especially germane to the case of defect ensembles which can exhibit a complex interplay between interactions, internal fields and lattice strain. Working with the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, we demonstrate that local electric fields dominate the magnetic resonance behavior of NV ensembles at low magnetic field. We introduce a simple microscopic model that quantitatively captures the observed spectra for samples with NV concentrations spanning over two orders of magnitude. Motivated by this understanding, we propose and implement a novel method for the nanoscale localization of individual charges within the diamond lattice; our approach relies upon the fact that the charge induces an NV dark state which depends on the electric field orientation.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-05 |