Coherent, mechanical control of a single electronic spin.
We demonstrate coherent quantum control of a single spin driven by the motion of a mechanical resonator. The motion of a mechanical resonator is magnetically coupled to the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Synchronization of spin-addressing protocols to the motion of the driven oscillator is used to fully exploit the coherence of this hybrid mechanical-spin system. We demonstrate applications of this coherent mechanical spin-control technique to nanoscale scanning magnetometry.
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Sungkun
S
Hong
Michael S
MS
Grinolds
Patrick
P
Maletinsky
Ronald L
RL
Walsworth
Mikhail D
MD
Lukin
Amir
A
Yacoby