Optical patterning of trapped charge in nitrogen-doped diamond

Harishankar Jayakumar, Jacob Henshaw, Siddharth Dhomkar, Daniela Pagliero, Abdelghani Laraoui, Neil B. Manson, Remus Albu, Marcus W. Doherty and Carlos A. Meriles ()
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Harishankar Jayakumar: CUNY-City College of New York
Jacob Henshaw: CUNY-City College of New York
Siddharth Dhomkar: CUNY-City College of New York
Daniela Pagliero: CUNY-City College of New York
Abdelghani Laraoui: CUNY-City College of New York
Neil B. Manson: Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Remus Albu: CUNY-City College of New York
Marcus W. Doherty: Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Carlos A. Meriles: CUNY-City College of New York

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is emerging as a promising platform for solid-state quantum information processing and nanoscale metrology. Of interest in these applications is the manipulation of the NV charge, which can be attained by optical excitation. Here, we use two-colour optical microscopy to investigate the dynamics of NV photo-ionization, charge diffusion and trapping in type-1b diamond. We combine fixed-point laser excitation and scanning fluorescence imaging to locally alter the concentration of negatively charged NVs, and to subsequently probe the corresponding redistribution of charge. We uncover the formation of spatial patterns of trapped charge, which we qualitatively reproduce via a model of the interplay between photo-excited carriers and atomic defects. Further, by using the NV as a probe, we map the relative fraction of positively charged nitrogen on localized optical excitation. These observations may prove important to transporting quantum information between NVs or to developing three-dimensional, charge-based memories.

Date: 2016
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