nLab nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

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Context

Solid state physics

Quantum systems

quantum logic


quantum physics


quantum probability theoryobservables and states


quantum information


quantum computation

qbit

quantum algorithms:


quantum sensing


quantum communication

Contents

Idea

In solid state physics, an impure form of diamond may be obtained where, in the center of the Bravais lattice, carbon nuclei are replaced by a nitrogen nucleus and a vacancy, referred to as the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond (often short: NV center).

In such a material, the spin of one of the electron orbitals bound to the nitrogen nucleus has a long quantum decoherence time and lends itself to manipulation by spin resonance.

from AHWZ18, Fig 1

Therefore NV center spins serve as a platform for spin resonance qbits, used in quantum sensing, quantum information processing and simple quantum computing.

References

Original articles:

  • J. M. Taylor et al., High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution, Nature Phys 4 (2008) 810–816 [doi:10.1038/nphys1075]

Review and further discussion

Application to quantum sensing:

Survey:

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