Improving the coherence properties of solid-state spin ensembles via optimized dynamical decoupling

D. Farfurnik; A. Jarmola; L. M. Pham; Z. H. Wang; V. V. Dobrovitski; R. L. Walsworth; D. Budker; N. Bar-Gill

doi:10.1117/12.2227479

29 April 2016 Improving the coherence properties of solid-state spin ensembles via optimized dynamical decoupling

D. Farfurnik, A. Jarmola, L. M. Pham, Z. H. Wang, V. V. Dobrovitski, R. L. Walsworth, D. Budker, N. Bar-Gill

Proceedings Volume 9900, Quantum Optics; 99000N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227479
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

In this work, we optimize a dynamical decoupling (DD) protocol to improve the spin coherence properties of a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Using liquid nitrogen-based cooling and DD microwave pulses, we increase the transverse coherence time T₂ from ∼ 0.7 ms up to ∼ 30 ms. We extend previous work of single-axis (Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill) DD towards the preservation of arbitrary spin states. After performing a detailed analysis of pulse and detuning errors, we compare the performance of various DD protocols. We identify that the concatenated XY8 pulse sequences serves as the optimal control scheme for preserving an arbitrary spin state. Finally, we use the concatenated sequences to demonstrate an immediate improvement of the AC magnetic sensitivity up to a factor of two at 250 kHz. For future work, similar protocols may be used to increase coherence times up to NV-NV interaction time scales, a major step toward the creation of quantum collective NV spin states.

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D. Farfurnik, A. Jarmola, L. M. Pham, Z. H. Wang, V. V. Dobrovitski, R. L. Walsworth, D. Budker, and N. Bar-Gill "Improving the coherence properties of solid-state spin ensembles via optimized dynamical decoupling", Proc. SPIE 9900, Quantum Optics, 99000N (29 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227479

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