A physically motivated analytical expression for the temperature dependence of the zero-field splitting of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

M. C. Cambria, G. Thiering, A. Norambuena +7

The temperature dependence of the zero-field splitting (ZFS) between the $|m_s=0⟩$ and $|m_s=\pm 1⟩$ levels of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center's electronic ground-…