Driving and Probing a Disordered Dipolar Spin Bath with a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center

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Abstract

The hybrid NV-P1 spin system in diamond offers a controllable setting for exploring many-body dynamics in a strongly disordered, long-range interacting environment. Through a combination of optical and microwave control, NV centers can both perturb the denser P1 spin bath away from thermal equilibrium and act as a local probe of its energy landscape. Performing "pump-probe spectroscopy" in this fashion, we observe long-lived narrow features in the P1 spectrum left behind by the NV pump, suggesting intriguing connections to hole-burning behavior in glassy spin systems. These results raise important questions about energy transport and dissipation in systems of disordered quantum dipoles, which we address through a combination of analytical modelling and neural quantum state-based simulations.

Presenters

  • Jonathan N Hallén

    • Harvard University

Authors

  • Jonathan N Hallén

    • Harvard University

  • Anne Matthies

    • University Cologne

  • Weijie Wu

    • Harvard University

  • Haopu Yang

    • Harvard University

  • Philip JD Crowley

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Avi Kaplan-Lipkin

    • Harvard University

  • Che Liu

    • Harvard University

  • Tasuko Ono

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Zilin Wang

    • Harvard University

  • Dominik Kufel

    • Harvard University

  • DinhDuy Vu

    • Harvard University

  • Michael P Zalatel

    • UC Berkeley

  • Chong Zu

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Christopher R Laumann

    • Boston University

  • Norman Y Yao

    • Harvard University