Optomechanical Quantum Control of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond
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- 7 April 2016
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- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 116 (14) , 143602
Abstract
We demonstrate optomechanical quantum control of the internal electronic states of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in the resolved-sideband regime by coupling the NV to both optical fields and surface acoustic waves via a phonon-assisted optical transition and by taking advantage of the strong excited-state electron-phonon coupling of a NV center. Optomechanically driven Rabi oscillations as well as quantum interferences between the optomechanical sideband and the direct dipole-optical transitions are realized. These studies open the door to using resolved-sideband optomechanical coupling for quantum control of both the atomlike internal states and the motional states of a coupled NV-nanomechanical system, leading to the development of a solid-state analog of trapped ions.Keywords
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- National Science Foundation (1414462, 1337711)
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