Abstract:
Coherent spin manipulations of ensembles of color centers in the form of neutral VSi-VC divacancies with the spin S=1 in hexagonal silicon carbide 6H–SiC enriched in the 13C isotope (12%) are studied in strong magnetic fields using electron spin echo and Rabi oscillation methods. Rabi oscillation experiments show that spin coherence is created in SiC with a tenfold increase in the content of the 13C isotope with a nuclear magnetic moment. The spin–lattice relaxation T1 and spin–spin relaxation T2 times are measured under conditions of optical alignment of spins at the temperature T=150 K in a magnetic field of about 3T and are T1∼5 ms and T2∼15μs, respectively. The optical alignment of populations of spin levels makes it possible to manipulate electron and nuclear spins in the environment using optical, microwave, and radio-frequency radiation.
Citation:
R. A. Babunts, Yu. A. Uspenskaya, A. P. Bundakova, G. V. Mamin, A. N. Anisimov, P. G. Baranov, “Relaxation processes and coherent spin manipulations for triplet Si-C divacancies in silicon carbide enriched tenfold in the 13C isotope”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 116:11 (2022), 763–769; JETP Letters, 116:11 (2022), 785–790