Optical Spin Initialization of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in a 28Si-Enriched 6H-SiC Crystal for Quantum Technologies
arXiv:2407.13351 · doi:10.1134/S0021364024600708
Abstract
High-spin defect centers in crystal matrices are used in quantum computing technologies, highly sensitive sensors, and single-photon sources. In this work, optically active nitrogen-vacancy color centers NV in a 28Si-enriched (nuclear spin I = 0) 6H-28SiC crystal have been studied using the photoinduced (980 nm) high-frequency (94 GHz, 3.4 T) pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance method at a temperature of 150 K. Three structurally nonequivalent types of NV- centers with axial symmetry have been identified and their spectroscopic parameters have been determined. Long spin-lattice, T1=1.3 ms, and spin-spin, T2=59 us, ensemble relaxation times of NV- centers with extremely narrow (450 kHz) absorption lines allow highly selective excitation of resonant transitions between sublevels caused by the weak hyperfine interaction (A = 1 MHz) with 14N (I = 1) nuclei for the quantum manipulation of the electron spin magnetization.
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