A unified framework for determining transition dipole polarization in solid-state spin defects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28784v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:27:48 GMT
• Title: A unified framework for determining transition dipole polarization in solid-state spin defects
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework for reconstructing electric transition dipole polarization in spin-1/2 solid-state defects directly from ensemble spectroscopy.<n>Results establish a broadly applicable route for extracting microscopic properties of solid-state quantum emitters from ensemble spectroscopy and for engineering optimized spin-photon and spin-phonon interfaces.
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• Abstract: Spin-photon interfaces based on solid-state defects are key building blocks for scalable quantum networks and hybrid quantum platforms. Optimizing light-matter coupling in these systems requires precise knowledge of the optical transition dipole polarization, yet for many promising quantum emitters this quantity is hard to determine and therefore remains poorly characterized. Here, we develop a framework for reconstructing electric transition dipole polarization in spin-1/2 solid-state defects directly from ensemble spectroscopy. The approach combines the response of photoluminescence spectra to magnetic field, optical polarization, and strain. Applied to erbium ions in silicon, a particularly challenging system containing multiple crystallographic subsites, the framework identifies strain-induced shifts as the origin of asymmetric ensemble spectra and enables simultaneous determination of the optical dipole polarization and strain-orbital coupling tensor. The resulting model predicts how cavity-ion coupling depends on crystallographic orientation and magnetic-field direction, which we verify using single erbium ions coupled to a nanophotonic cavity. Together, these results establish a broadly applicable route for extracting microscopic properties of solid-state quantum emitters from ensemble spectroscopy and for engineering optimized spin-photon and spin-phonon interfaces.

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