Imaging the local charge environment of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

ORAL

Abstract

Characterizing the local internal environment surrounding solid-state spin defects is crucial to harnessing them as nanoscale sensors of external fields. This is especially germane to the case of defect ensembles which can exhibit a complex interplay between interactions, internal fields and lattice strain. In this talk, we demonstrate that local electric fields dominate the magnetic resonance behavior of ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centersin diamond at low magnetic field. We introduce a microscopic model that quantitatively captures the observed spectra for samples with NV concentrations spanning over two orders of magnitude. Motivated by this understanding, we present the implementation of a novel method for the nanoscale localization of individual charges within the diamond lattice.

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Presenters

  • Thomas Mittiga

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Thomas Mittiga

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Satcher Hsieh

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Chong Zu

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Bryce H Kobrin

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Francisco Machado

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Prabudhya Bhattacharyya

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Nicholas Z Rui

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Andrey Jarmola

    Department of Physics, University of California-Berkeley,, Berkeley, CA 94720, Department of Physics, University of California-Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley

  • Soonwon Choi

    University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Physics, University of California Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, Harvard University, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Dmitry Budker

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Norman Yao

    University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials Sciences Division