Spin dynamics in the optical cycle of single nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

Details Spin dynamics in the optical cycle of single nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond Spin dynamics in the optical cycle of single nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

2010-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1192v1

New J. Phys. 13 (2011) 025013

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025013

We investigate spin-dependent decay and intersystem crossing in the optical cycle of single negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond. We use spin control and pulsed optical excitation to extract both the spin-resolved lifetimes of the excited states and the degree of optically-induced spin polarization. By optically exciting the centre with a series of picosecond pulses, we determine the spin-flip probabilities per optical cycle, as well as the spin-dependent probability for intersystem crossing. This information, together with the indepedently measured decay rate of singlet population provides a full description of spin dynamics in the optical cycle of NV centres. The temperature dependence of the singlet population decay rate provides information on the number of singlet states involved in the optical cycle.

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