Protecting solid-state spins from a strongly coupled environment
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Chen, Mo; Sun, Won Kyu Calvin; Saha, Kasturi; Jaskula, Jean-Christophe; Cappellaro, Paola
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Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Quantum memories are critical for solid-state quantum computing devices and a good quantum memory requires both long storage time and fast read/write operations. A promising system is the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, where the NV electronic spin serves as the computing qubit and a nearby nuclear spin as the memory qubit. Previous works used remote, weakly coupled 13C nuclear spins, trading read/write speed for long storage time. Here we focus instead on the intrinsic strongly coupled 14N nuclear spin. We first quantitatively understand its decoherence mechanism, identifying as its source the electronic spin that acts as a quantum fluctuator. We then propose a scheme to protect the quantum memory from the fluctuating noise by applying dynamical decoupling on the environment itself. We demonstrate a factor of 3 enhancement of the storage time in a proof-of-principle experiment, showing the potential for a quantum memory that combines fast operation with long coherence time.
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2018-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringJournal
New Journal of Physics
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IOP Publishing
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Chen, Mo et al. "Protecting solid-state spins from a strongly coupled environment." New Journal of Physics 20 (2018): 063011-1 to 063011-20 © 2018 The Author(s)
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