{
  "id": "1206.3505",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-06-15T16:08:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-06-15T16:08:28.000Z",
  "title": "All-optical control of the spin state in the NV-center in diamond",
  "authors": [
    "Florian Hilser",
    "Guido Burkard"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 9 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe an all-optical scheme for spin manipulation in the ground-state triplet of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. Virtual optical excitation from the 3A_2 ground state into the 3E excited state allows for spin rotations by virtue of the spin-spin interaction in the two-fold orbitally degenerate excited state. We derive an effective Hamiltonian for optically induced spin-flip transitions within the ground state spin triplet due to off-resonant optical pumping. Furthermore, we investigate the spin qubit formed by the Zeeman sub-levels with spin projection m_S = 0 and m_S = -1 along the NV axis around the ground state level anticrossing with regard to full optical control of the electron spin.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-06-15T16:08:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "76.30.Mi",
      "03.67.-a",
      "31.15.xh",
      "71.70.Ej"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "spin state",
      "all-optical control",
      "ground state spin triplet",
      "two-fold orbitally degenerate excited state",
      "ground state level"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.86.125204",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 86,
      "number": 12,
      "pages": 125204
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvB..86l5204H"
    }
  }
}