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Optical and spin properties of nitrogen vacancy centers formed along the tracks of high energy heavy ions (2403.03570v2)

Published 6 Mar 2024 in quant-ph and hep-ex

Abstract: Exposure of matter to high energy, heavy ions induces defects along the trajectories of the ions through electronic and nuclear energy loss processes. Defects, including color centers, can recombine or form along latent damage tracks in many materials, such as insulators and semiconductors. Latent tracks in diamond were only recently observed. Here, we report on color center formation in diamond along the latent tracks of 1 GeV gold and uranium ions. Using depth-resolved photoluminescence, we observe direct formation of single vacancy related color centers (GR1-centers) along the ion tracks. Mobile vacancies can form NV-centers with native nitrogen atoms during thermal annealing. Molecular dynamics simulations show that isolated vacancies and vacancy clusters form through electronic stopping processes, leading to color center formation along ion trajectories from the sample surface to a depth of about 25 microns. We further report on the creation of individually isolated quasi-1D chains of NV-centers by using 1 GeV Au ions with a dilute fluence. The individual 1D NV-chains appear as isolated bright luminescence strings and present competitive electron spin properties compared to a background of NV-centers. Such spin textures can be explored as building blocks for applications in quantum information processing and quantum sensing.

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