Engineering the Collapse of Lifetime Distribution of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Nanodiamonds

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that the distribution of the decay rates of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond becomes narrower by over five times for nanodiamonds embedded in thin chalcogenide films.

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