Selected papers

Room-temperature control and electrical readout of individual nitrogen-vacancy nuclear spins
Room-temperature control and electrical readout of individual nitrogen-vacancy nuclear spins
Nature Communications 12: 4421 (2021)
Nuclear spins in semiconductors are leading candidates for future quantum technologies, including quantum computation, communication, and sensing. Nuclear spins in diamond are particularly attractive due to their long coherence time. With the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre, such nuclear qubits benefit from an auxiliary electronic qubit, which, at cryogenic temperatures, enables probabilistic entanglement mediated optically by photonic links. Here, we demonstrate a concept of a microelectronic quantum device at ambient conditions using diamond as wide bandgap semiconductor. The basic quantum processor unit – a single 14N nuclear spin coupled to the NV electron – is read photoelectrically and thus operates in a manner compatible with nanoscale electronics. The underlying theory provides the key ingredients for photoelectric quantum gate operations and readout of nuclear qubit registers. This demonstration is, therefore, a step towards diamond quantum devices with a readout area limited by…

Latest publications

Long Spin Relaxation Times in CVD-Grown Nanodiamonds
Advanced Quantum Technologies 6 (12): 2300004 (2023)
Exploiting ionization dynamics in the nitrogen vacancy center for rapid, high-contrast spin, and charge state initialization
Physical Review Research 5 (1): 013014 (2023)
Magnetic field sensitivity of the photoelectrically read nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Applied Physics Letters 120 (16): 162402 (2022)