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Strain engineering of the silicon-vacancy center in diamond

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Authors

Meesala, S 
Sohn, YI 
Pingault, B 
Shao, L 
Atikian, HA 

Abstract

We control the electronic structure of the silicon-vacancy (SiV) color-center in diamond by changing its static strain environment with a nano-electro-mechanical system. This allows deterministic and local tuning of SiV optical and spin transition frequencies over a wide range, an essential step towards multi-qubit networks. In the process, we infer the strain Hamiltonian of the SiV revealing large strain susceptibilities of order 1 PHz/strain for the electronic orbital states. We identify regimes where the spin-orbit interaction results in a large strain suseptibility of order 100 THz/strain for spin transitions, and propose an experiment where the SiV spin is strongly coupled to a nanomechanical resonator.

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Keywords

quant-ph, quant-ph, cond-mat.mes-hall

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

97

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2013-337)
European Commission (289795)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M013243/1)
EPSRC (1498341)