1. Highly Coherent Nitrogen‐Vacancy Centers in Diamond via Rational High‐Pressure and High‐Temperature Synthesis and Treatment.
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Zhang, Xiaoran, Liu, Kang‐Yuan, Li, Fengjiao, Liu, Xiaobing, Duan, Shuai, Wang, Jia‐Ning, Liu, Gang‐Qin, Pan, Xin‐Yu, Chen, Xin, Zhang, Ping, Ma, Yanming, and Chen, Changfeng
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CHEMICAL vapor deposition ,DIAMONDS ,QUANTUM information science ,JEWELRY stores ,DIAMOND crystals - Abstract
The high‐pressure and high‐temperature (HPHT) diamonds with well‐controlled defects and low stress offer an ideal host substrate for the fields of quantum information science; however, fabrication of quantum‐grade HPHT diamonds remains a pressing challenge. Here, a major advance in generating highly coherent nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) centers, a promising spin defect in diamonds, via tailored HPHT synthesis and postgrown annealing treatment is reported. The resulting well‐dispersed single NV− centers in type‐IIa diamonds exhibit long spin coherence times comparable to that of the reported chemical vapor deposition diamonds. Moreover, high‐density NV− ensembles in 〈100〉‐grown type‐Ib diamonds with superb zero‐phonon lines considerably sharper than those of native NV− centers in as‐grown diamonds, together with low splitting of resonances are produced. These findings demonstrate a superior synthesis and optimization protocol for creating high‐quality NV− centers avoiding lattice damage in diamond to meet the stringent requirements for a wide range of emerging quantum technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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