Spins in N-V Centers in Diamond (IMAGE)

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

Spins in N-V Centers in Diamond

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Spins of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond (represented on the center photo as bright spots and denoted as the orange arrow on the figure to the left) interact with a bath of environmental spins (denoted as green arrows). The environmental spins interact with the N-V spins, and destroy their fragile quantum state. By applying a specially designed sequence with more and more pulses, the lifetime of the quantum spin state can be significantly extended (as shown in the figure at right).

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Institute of Nanosciences at Delft University of Technology & U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory

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