Detecting nitrogen-vacancy-hydrogen centers on the nanoscale using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18624v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:30:36 GMT
• Title: Detecting nitrogen-vacancy-hydrogen centers on the nanoscale using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
• Authors: Christoph Findler (1 and 2), R\'emi Blinder (1), Karolina Sch\"ule (1), Priyadharshini Balasubramanian (1), Christian Osterkamp (1 and 2) and Fedor Jelezko (1) ((1) Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Germany (2) Diatope GmbH, Ummendorf, Germany)
• Abstract summary: nitrogen-vacancy-hydrogen complex (NVH) outnumbers the nitrogen vacancy (NV) defect by at least one order of magnitude creating a dense spin bath. Monitoring and controlling the spin bath is essential to produce and understand engineered diamond material with high NV concentrations for quantum applications.
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• Abstract: In diamond, nitrogen defects like the substitutional nitrogen defect (Ns) or the nitrogen-vacancy-hydrogen complex (NVH) outnumber the nitrogen vacancy (NV) defect by at least one order of magnitude creating a dense spin bath. While neutral Ns has an impact on the coherence of the NV spin state, the atomic structure of NVH reminds of a NV center decorated with a hydrogen atom. As a consequence, the formation of NVH centers could compete with that of NV centers possibly lowering the N-to-NV conversion efficiency in diamond grown with hydrogen-plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Therefore, monitoring and controlling the spin bath is essential to produce and understand engineered diamond material with high NV concentrations for quantum applications. While the incorporation of Ns in diamond has been investigated on the nano- and mesoscale for years, studies concerning the influence of CVD parameters and the crystal orientation on the NVH formation have been restricted to bulk N-doped diamond providing high-enough spin numbers for electron paramagnetic resonance and optical absorption spectroscopy techniques. Here, we investigate sub-micron-thick (100)-diamond layers with nitrogen contents of (13.8 +- 1.6) ppm and (16.7 +- 3.6) ppm, and exploiting the NV centers in the layers as local nano-sensors, we demonstrate the detection of NVH- centers using double-electron-electron-resonance (DEER). To determine the NVH- densities, we quantitatively fit the hyperfine structure of NVH- and confirm the results with the DEER method usually used for determining Ns0 densities. With our experiments, we access the spin bath composition on the nanoscale and enable a fast feedback-loop in CVD recipe optimization with thin diamond layers instead of resource- and time-intensive bulk crystals.

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