Materials challenges for quantum technologies based on color centers in diamond

LVH Rodgers, LB Hughes, M **e, PC Maurer… - MRS Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Emerging quantum technologies require precise control over quantum systems of increasing
complexity. Defects in diamond, particularly the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum networks based on color centers in diamond

M Ruf, NH Wan, H Choi, D Englund… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
With the ability to transfer and process quantum information, large-scale quantum networks
will enable a suite of fundamentally new applications, from quantum communications to …

Coupling spins to nanomechanical resonators: Toward quantum spin-mechanics

H Wang, I Lekavicius - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Spin-mechanics studies interactions between spin systems and mechanical vibrations in a
nanomechanical resonator and explores their potential applications in quantum information …

Diamond integrated quantum nanophotonics: spins, photons and phonons

PK Shandilya, S Flågan, NC Carvalho… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonic devices in diamond have tremendous potential for many quantum
applications, including long-distance quantum communication, quantum information …

Diamond optomechanical cavity with a color center for coherent microwave-to-optical quantum interfaces

B Kim, H Kurokawa, K Sakai, K Koshino, H Kosaka… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Quantum transduction between microwave and optical photons plays a key role in quantum
communication among remote qubits. Although the quantum transduction schemes …

Unconventional quantum sound-matter interactions in spin-optomechanical-crystal hybrid systems

XL Dong, PB Li, T Liu, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We predict a set of unusual quantum acoustic phenomena resulting from sound-matter
interactions in a fully tunable solid-state platform in which an array of solid-state spins in …

Ultracoherent gigahertz diamond spin-mechanical lamb wave resonators

X Li, I Lekavicius, J Noeckel, H Wang - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report the development of an all-optical approach that excites the fundamental
compression mode in a diamond Lamb wave resonator with an optical gradient force and …

Single-spin readout and quantum sensing using optomechanically induced transparency

M Koppenhöfer, C Padgett, JV Cady, V Dharod, H Oh… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Solid-state spin defects are promising quantum sensors for a large variety of sensing targets.
Some of these defects couple appreciably to strain in the host material. We propose to use …

Temperature-dependent spin-lattice relaxation of the nitrogen-vacancy spin triplet in diamond

MC Cambria, A Norambuena, HT Dinani, G Thiering… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Spin-lattice relaxation within the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center's electronic ground-state spin
triplet limits its coherence times, and thereby impacts its performance in quantum …

A single-photon emitter coupled to a phononic-crystal resonator in the resolved-sideband regime

C Spinnler, GN Nguyen, Y Wang, L Zhai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A promising route towards the deterministic creation and annihilation of single-phonons is to
couple a single-photon emitter to a mechanical resonator. The challenge lies in reaching the …