We investigate color center formation far from equilibrium, e.g. using high intensity short ion pulses that can locally create very high temperatures for short times in materials such as diamonds.
We work together with Liang Tan et al. for theoretical support of our experiments and Ed Barnard for confocal imaging.
W. Redjem, A. J. Amsellem, F. I. Allen, G. Benndorf, J. Bin, S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, L. C. Feldman, J. Ferrer Fernandez, J. Garcia Lopez, L. Geulig, C. R. Geddes, H. Hijazi, Q. Ji, V. Ivanov, B. Kanté, A. Gonsalves, J. Meijer, K. Nakamura, A. Persaud, I. Pong, L. Obst-Huebl, P. A. Seidl, J. Simoni, C. Schroeder, S. Steinke, L. Z. Tan, R. Wunderlich, B. Wynne, T. Schenkel, Defect engineering of silicon with ion pulses from laser acceleration. Communications Materials. 4, 1–10 (2023). doi:10.1038/s43246-023-00349-4
W. Redjem, Y. Zhiyenbayev, W. Qarony, V. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, W. Liu, K. Jhuria, Z. Al Balushi, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, L. Tan, T. Schenkel, B. Kanté, All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity. arXiv [quant-ph] (2023), arxiv:2301.06654.
J. Simoni, V. Ivanov, T. Schenkel, L. Z. Tan, Phonon Induced Spin Dephasing Time of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond from First Principles. arXiv [quant-ph] (2022), arxiv:2209.11412.
V. Ivanov, J. Simoni, Y. Lee, W. Liu, K. Jhuria, W. Redjem, Y. Zhiyenbayev, C. Papapanos, W. Qarony, B. Kanté, A. Persaud, T. Schenkel, L. Z. Tan, Effect of localization on photoluminescence and zero-field splitting of silicon color centers. Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter. 106, 134107 (2022), doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.134107.
T. Schenkel, W. Redjem, A. Persaud, W. Liu, P. A. Seidl, A. J. Amsellem, B. Kanté, Q. Ji, Exploration of Defect Dynamics and Color Center Qubit Synthesis with Pulsed Ion Beams. Quantum Beam Science. 6, 13 (2022).
R. E. Lake, A. Persaud, C. Christian, E. S. Barnard, E. M. Chan, A. A. Bettiol, M. Tomut, C. Trautmann, T. Schenkel, Direct formation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nitrogen doped diamond along the trajectories of swift heavy ions. Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 084002 (2021). doi:10.1063/5.0036643
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