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Scalable Fabrication of Diamond-on-Silica Heterostructures via High-Selectivity Deep ICP-RIE and Room-Temperature Bonding
R. Chembra Vasudevan, A. Hammouti, J. Le Pouliquen +4
Single-crystal diamond is a leading material platform for high-power electronics and solid-state quantum technologies, yet many device architectures require micrometer-scale membra…
Spin Read-out of the Motion of Levitated Electrically Rotated Diamonds
Maxime Perdriat, Cosimo C. Rusconi, Tom Delord +4
Recent advancements with trapped nano- and micro-particles have enabled the exploration of motional states on unprecedented scales. Rotational degrees of freedom stand out due to t…
Spin-Relaxation of Dipolar-Coupled Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers : The role of Double-flip Processes
C. Pellet-Mary, M. Perdriat, P. Huillery +1
We study relaxation processes of the spins of dipolar-coupled negatively charged nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers under transverse electric and magnetic fields. Specifically, we u…
Spin-mechanics with nitrogen-vacancy centers and trapped particles
Maxime Perdriat, Clément Pellet-Mary, Paul Huillery +2
Controlling the motion of macroscopic oscillators in the quantum regime has been the subject of intense research in recent decades. In this direction, opto-mechanical systems, wher…
Magnetic-Torque Enhanced by Tunable Dipolar interactions
C. Pellet-Mary, P. Huillery, M. Perdriat +1
We use tunable dipolar-interactions between the spins of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to rotate a diamond crystal. Specifically, we employ cross-relaxation between the…
Angle Locking of a Levitating Diamond using Spin-Diamagnetism
M. Perdriat, P. Huillery, C. Pellet-Mary +1
The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in nano- or micro- diamonds has emerged as a promising magnetic field sensor, as a candidate for hyper-polarizing paramagnetic s…
Optical Detection of Paramagnetic Defects in a CVD-grown Diamond
C. Pellet-Mary, P. Huillery, M. Perdriat +2
The electronic spins of the nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV centers) in Chemical-Vapor-Deposition (CVD) grown diamonds form ideal probes of magnetic fields and temperature, as well as…
Coherent Microwave Control of a Nuclear Spin Ensemble at Room Temperature
P. Huillery, J. Leibold, T. Delord +4
We use nominally forbidden electron-nuclear spin transitions in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to demonstrate coherent manipulation of a nuclear spin ensemble using micro…
Spin-Cooling of the Motion of a Trapped Diamond
T. Delord, P. Huillery, L. Nicolas +1
Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in research on quantum physics. In this endeavor, strong coupling between individual quantum sys…
Spin-mechanics with levitating ferromagnetic particles
P. Huillery, T. Delord, L. Nicolas +3
We propose and demonstrate first steps towards schemes where the librational mode of levitating ferromagnets is strongly coupled to the electronic spin of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) cen…
Coulomb anti-blockade in a Rydberg dressed gas
A. D. Bounds, N. C. Jackson, R. K. Hanley +3
We perform a comprehensive investigation of the coupling between a Rydberg-dressed atomic gas and an ultra-cold plasma. Using simultaneous time-resolved measurements of both neutra…
Sub-GHz linewidths ensembles of SiV centers in a diamond nano-pyramid revealed by charge state conversion
L. Nicolas, T. Delord, P. Huillery +2
Producing nano-structures with embedded bright ensembles of lifetime-limited emitters is a challenge with potential high impact in a broad range of physical sciences. In this work,…
Collective Mode Interferences in Light--Matter Interactions
Robert J. Bettles, Teodora Ilieva, Hannes Busche +4
We present a theoretical and experimental analysis of transient optical properties of a dense cold atomic gas. After the rapid extinction of a weak coherent driving field (mean pho…
Diamond nano-pyramids with narrow linewidth SiV centers for quantum technologies
L. Nicolas, T. Delord, P. Huillery +2
Color centers in diamond are versatile solid state atomic-like systems suitable for quantum technological applications. In particular, the negatively charged silicon vacancy center…
A Rydberg-dressed Magneto-Optical Trap
A. D. Bounds, N. C. Jackson, R. K. Hanley +4
We propose and demonstrate the laser cooling and trapping of Rydberg-dressed Sr atoms. By off-resonantly coupling the excited state of a narrow (7 kHz) cooling transition to a high…
Ramsey interferences and spin echoes from electron spins inside a levitating macroscopic particle
T. Delord, P. Huillery, L. Schwab +3
We report observations of Ramsey interferences and spin echoes from electron spins inside a levitating macroscopic particle. The experiment is realized using nitrogen-vacancy (NV)…
Quantitative simulation of a magneto-optical trap operating near the photon recoil limit
Ryan K. Hanley, Paul Huillery, Niamh C. Keegan +3
We present a quantitative model for magneto-optical traps operating on narrow transitions, where the transition linewidth and the recoil shift are comparable. We combine a quantum…
Rydberg Electrometry for Optical Lattice Clocks
William Bowden, Richard Hobson, Paul Huillery +3
Electrometry is performed using Rydberg states to evaluate the quadratic Stark shift of the clock transition in strontium. By measurin…
Probing interactions of thermal Sr Rydberg atoms using simultaneous optical and ion detection
Ryan K. Hanley, Alistair D. Bounds, Paul Huillery +5
We demonstrate a method for probing interaction effects in a thermal beam of strontium atoms using simultaneous measurements of Rydberg EIT and spontaneously created ions or electr…
Full counting statistics and phase diagram of a dissipative Rydberg gas
N. Malossi, M. M. Valado, S. Scotto +5
Ultra-cold gases excited to strongly interacting Rydberg states are a promising system for quantum simulations of many-body systems. For off-resonant excitation of such systems in…
Cooperative excitation and many-body interactions in a cold Rydberg gas
Matthieu Viteau, Paul Huillery, Mark G. Bason +6
The dipole blockade of Rydberg excitations is a hallmark of the strong interactions between atoms in these high-lying quantum states. One of the consequences of the dipole blockade…
Observation of a resonant four-body interaction in cold cesium Rydberg atoms
J. H. Gurian, P. Cheinet, P. Huillery +5
Cold Rydberg atoms subject to long-range dipole-dipole interactions represent a particularly interesting system for exploring few-body interactions and probing the transition from…
High-fidelity quantum driving
Mark G. Bason, Matthieu Viteau, Nicola Malossi +7
The ability to accurately control a quantum system is a fundamental requirement in many areas of modern science such as quantum information processing and the coherent manipulation…