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Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Mar 03;118(9):093601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.093601. Epub 2017 Mar 03.

Depolarization Dynamics in a Strongly Interacting Solid-State Spin Ensemble.

Physical review letters

Joonhee Choi, Soonwon Choi, Georg Kucsko, Peter C Maurer, Brendan J Shields, Hitoshi Sumiya, Shinobu Onoda, Junichi Isoya, Eugene Demler, Fedor Jelezko, Norman Y Yao, Mikhail D Lukin

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
  2. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
  3. Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
  4. Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited, Itami, Hyougo 664-0016, Japan.
  5. Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 1233 Watanuki, Takasaki, Gunma 370-1292, Japan.
  6. Research Centre for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan.
  7. Institut für Quantenoptik and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
  8. Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

PMID: 28306313 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.093601

Abstract

We study the depolarization dynamics of a dense ensemble of dipolar interacting spins, associated with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. We observe anomalously fast, density-dependent, and nonexponential spin relaxation. To explain these observations, we propose a microscopic model where an interplay of long-range interactions, disorder, and dissipation leads to predictions that are in quantitative agreement with both current and prior experimental results. Our results pave the way for controlled many-body experiments with long-lived and strongly interacting ensembles of solid-state spins.

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