A single optically detectable tumbling spin in silicon

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15590v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:38:25 GMT
• Title: A single optically detectable tumbling spin in silicon
• Authors: Félix Cache, Yoann Baron, Baptiste Lefaucher, Jean-Baptiste Jager, Frédéric Mazen, Frédéric Milési, Sébastien Kerdilès, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Jean-Michel Gérard, Guillaume Cassabois, Anaïs Dréau,
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate single spin spectroscopy of a fluorescent tumbling defect in silicon called the G center.<n>We reveal a fine magnetic structure resulting from the spin principal axes jumping between discrete orientations in the crystal.<n>By modeling the atomic reorientation of the defect, we demonstrate that spin tumbling induces variations in the coupling to the microwave magnetic field.
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• Abstract: Electron spin resonance spectroscopy is a widely used technique for analyzing the microscopic structure, local environment and reorientation of atomic and molecular systems. Conventional inductive detection methods typically require to probe more than a billion of electron spins such that single atom motion is hidden through ensemble averaging. While several single spin spectroscopy methods are currently available, they have been so far limited to static systems. Here we demonstrate single spin spectroscopy of a fluorescent tumbling defect in silicon called the G center, behaving as a pseudo-molecule randomly reorienting itself in the crystalline matrix. Using high-resolution spin spectroscopy, we reveal a fine magnetic structure resulting from the spin principal axes jumping between discrete orientations in the crystal. By modeling the atomic reorientation of the defect, we demonstrate that spin tumbling induces variations in the coupling to the microwave magnetic field, enabling position-dependent Rabi frequencies to be detected in coherent spin control experiments. By virtue of its pseudo-molecule configuration, the G center in silicon is a unique quantum system to investigate the mutual interaction between optical, spin and rotation properties in a highly versatile material.

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