Engineering and Manipulating Single Spins in Diamond
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Degree Supervisor:
- David D. Awschalom
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2013
- Issued Date:
- 2013
- Topics:
- Physics, Condensed Matter, Engineering, Electronics and Electrical, and Physics, Quantum
- Keywords:
- Diamond,
Single Spin,
Delta-dope,
All-optical control,
F J Heremans, and
Nitrogen-Vacancy Center - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
- Description:
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond is a promising solid- state qubit for emerging quantum technologies, due to its long spin coherence time and fast manipulation rates, together with a level structure that allows for straightforward optical initialization and read- out of the electronic spin state . In high-quality single-crystal diamond at temperatures below 25 K, sharp zero-phonon-line (ZPL) optical transitions facilitate the coherent coupling between NV-center spins and photons. In this dissertation, I describe several experiments which explore the local spin environment around the NV centers along with a technique of electrically controlling their spin fine structure. We also take a bottom-up approach, by growing diamonds specifically engineered with shallow NV centers with long spin coherence times. The latter part of the dissertation explores two ways of manipulating the NV centers using all-optical control techniques, eliminating the need for traditional electron spin resonance devices and increasing the scalability and integration of NV centers into photonic networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3602087
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3bp00wf
- ISBN:
- 9781303538834
- Catalog System Number:
- 990040924560203776
- Copyright:
- Joseph Heremans, 2013
- Rights:
In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Joseph Heremans
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