Increasing the coherence time of single electron spins in diamond by high temperature annealing

Abstract

Negatively charged Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV${}^{-}$) centers in diamond produced by ion implantation often show properties different from NVs created during the crystal growth. We observe that NVs created from nitrogen ions with four different energies (30-300 keV) show much shorter electron spin coherence time $T_2$ compared to the "natural" NVs and we could find any dependence of $T_2$ on the implantation energy. Moreover, we also find out that about 10% of them show switching from NV${}^{-}$to NV${}^0$. We develop a method to increase $T_2$ of single NV${}^{-}$ centers by annealing the sample at $t=1200\circ$C whereas at the same time the fraction of the NVs showing discharging is greatly reduced.

Accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett

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