Observation of the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in the excited states of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Kai Mei C. Fu; Charles Santori; Paul E. Barclay; Lachlan J. Rogers; Neil B. Manson; Raymond G. Beausoleil

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.256404

Observation of the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in the excited states of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Kai Mei C. Fu, Charles Santori, Paul E. Barclay, Lachlan J. Rogers, Neil B. Manson, Raymond G. Beausoleil

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The optical transition linewidth and emission polarization of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are measured from 5 K to room temperature. Interexcited state population relaxation is shown to broaden the zero-phonon line and both the relaxation and linewidth are found to follow a T5 dependence for T<100K. This dependence indicates that the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect is the dominant dephasing mechanism for the NV optical transitions at low temperatures.

Original language	English
Article number	256404
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	103
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.256404
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2009

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