High Q-Factor Diamond Optomechanical Resonators with Silicon Vacancy Centers at Millikelvin Temperatures
Abstract
Phonons are envisioned as coherent intermediaries between different types of quantum systems. Engineered nanoscale devices, such as optomechanical crystals (OMCs), provide a platform to utilize phonons as quantum information carriers. Here we demonstrate OMCs in diamond designed for strong for interactions between phonons and a silicon vacancy (SiV) spin. Using optical measurements at millikelvin temperatures, we measure a line width of 13 kHz (Q-factor of ∼4.4 × 105) for a 6 GHz acoustic mode, a record for diamond in the GHz frequency range and within an order of magnitude of state-of-the-art line widths for OMCs in silicon. We investigate SiV optical and spin properties in these devices and outline a path toward a coherent spin–phonon interface.
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Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank M. Bhaskar, D. Assumpcao, and C. Knaut for the useful discussions. G.J. was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC). C.C. was supported in part by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). B.P. acknowledges financial support through a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions global fellowship (COHESiV, Project No. 840968) from the European Commission and through Q-NEXT, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. K.K. acknowledges financial support from JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships (Project No. 202160592). S.M. acknowledges support from the IQIM Postdoctoral Fellowship. Research funding: NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks (EEC-1941583), NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (NSF DMR-1231319), AFOSR (FA9550-20-1-01015 and FA9550-23-1-0333), ARO (W911NF1810432), ONR (N00014-20-1-2425), and Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI). This work was performed in part at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), which is supported by the National Science Foundation award ECS-0335765. CNS is part of Harvard University.
Contributions
G.J and C.C contributed equally to this paper.
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Optical and mechanical simulation details, device fabrication details, fluorescence quenching observation, pump–probe measurement details, integrated mechanical spectra vs intracavity photon number and mechanical quality factor discussion, and measurement setup details (PDF)
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): B.M. is involved in developing diamond technologies at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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- ISSN
- 1530-6992
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- European Research Council
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 840968
- United States Department of Energy
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 202160592
- California Institute of Technology
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
- National Science Foundation
- EEC-1941583
- National Science Foundation
- DMR-1231319
- United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- FA9550-20-1-01015
- United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- FA9550-23-1-0333
- United States Army Research Office
- W911NF1810432
- Office of Naval Research
- N00014-20-1-2425
- Harvard University
- Harvard Quantum Initiative
- National Science Foundation
- ECCS-0335765
- Caltech groups
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter