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Single Color Center Spin Coherence revealed in Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of an Ensemble of Silicon Vacancies in SiC
ArXiv.org
Cornell University
11/30/2025
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.01144
Abstract
We present a quantitative theory for simulating optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) measurements of optically-active spin centers using steady-state Lindblad equations. We apply the theory to an experimental ODMR spectrum associated with the negatively-charged silicon vacancy V2 center in 6H-SiC, showing that spin Hamiltonian parameters, optical transition rates, and even coherence times may be extracted, with values consistent with recent literature. Notably the T2 spin coherence time is measurable, not just the T ∗ 2 dephasing time. Furthermore, we simulate the ODMR spectra of a V2 center in isotopically-purified 6H-SiC, and predict an order-of-magnitude narrowing of some, but not all spectral lines compared with natural abundance samples.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Single Color Center Spin Coherence revealed in Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of an Ensemble of Silicon Vacancies in SiC
- Creators
- David A FehrHannes KrausCorey J CochraneMichael E Flatté
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Publication Details
- ArXiv.org
- DOI
- 10.48550/arxiv.2512.01144
- ISSN
- 2331-8422
- Publisher
- Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
- Number of pages
- 7 pages
- Language
- English
- Date posted
- 11/30/2025
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9985089029002771
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