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TY - JOUR
T1 - Electron spin coherence and electron nuclear double resonance of Bi donors in natural Si
AU - George, Richard
AU - Witzel, Wayne
AU - Riemann, H.
AU - Abrosimov, N. V.
AU - Nötzel, N.
AU - Thewalt, Mike
AU - Morton, John
N1 - © 2010 The American Physical Society
PY - 2010/8/6
Y1 - 2010/8/6
N2 - Donors in silicon hold considerable promise for emerging quantum technologies, due to their uniquely long electron spin coherence times. Bismuth donors in silicon differ from more widely studied group V donors, such as phosphorous, in several significant respects: They have the strongest binding energy (70.98 meV), a large nuclear spin (I=9/2), and a strong hyperfine coupling constant (A=1475.4 MHz). These larger energy scales allow us to perform a detailed test of theoretical models describing the spectral diffusion mechanism that is known to govern the electron spin decoherence of P donors in natural silicon. We report the electron-nuclear double resonance spectra of the Bi donor, across the range 200 MHz to 1.4 GHz, and confirm that coherence transfer is possible between electron and nuclear spin degrees of freedom at these higher frequencies.
AB - Donors in silicon hold considerable promise for emerging quantum technologies, due to their uniquely long electron spin coherence times. Bismuth donors in silicon differ from more widely studied group V donors, such as phosphorous, in several significant respects: They have the strongest binding energy (70.98 meV), a large nuclear spin (I=9/2), and a strong hyperfine coupling constant (A=1475.4 MHz). These larger energy scales allow us to perform a detailed test of theoretical models describing the spectral diffusion mechanism that is known to govern the electron spin decoherence of P donors in natural silicon. We report the electron-nuclear double resonance spectra of the Bi donor, across the range 200 MHz to 1.4 GHz, and confirm that coherence transfer is possible between electron and nuclear spin degrees of freedom at these higher frequencies.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.067601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.067601
M3 - Journal article
VL - 105
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 6
M1 - 067601
ER -