Optical Readout of Coherent Nuclear Spins Beyond the NV Center Electron T$_1$

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19235v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:49:48 GMT
• Title: Optical Readout of Coherent Nuclear Spins Beyond the NV Center Electron T$_1$
• Authors: Johnathan Kuan, Gregory D. Fuchs,
• Abstract summary: We introduce an optical repump pulse to repolarize electron spins and investigate its effect on the readout of nuclear spins. We find for ensemble-based sensors, our readout protocol has around a six-fold improvement around the excited state anti-level crossing at 500 G compared to low fields (200 G)
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• Abstract: The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is an emerging platform for constructing inertial sensors. Its native nitrogen spin can serve as a gyroscope using Ramsey interferometry protocols. The sensitivities of these nuclear-spin-based NV gyroscopes are limited by the phase coherence time of the nuclear spin, which is in turn limited by the $T_1$ of the NV center's electron spin. There is an active research effort to decouple the nuclear spin from the electron spin and other sources of decoherence to extend the phase coherence time past the NV center electron $T_1$. However, this presents an associated challenge -- how to readout of the nuclear spin ensemble if the electronic spins have relaxed into a thermal state. We introduce an optical repump pulse to repolarize electron spins and investigate its effect on the readout of nuclear spins in this regime. We find for ensemble-based sensors, our readout protocol has around a six-fold improvement in sensitivity around the excited state anti-level crossing at 500 G compared to low fields (200 G), despite the presence of deleterious spin flip-flop dynamics in the excited state.

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