Multimode Jahn-Teller Effect in Negatively Charged Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond

Jianhua Zhang, Jun Liu, Z. Z. Zhu +3

We present a first-principles study of the multimode Jahn-Teller (JT) effect in the exctied ${}^{3}E$ state of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. Using d…