Friday, February 17, 2012

1202.3472 (D. Maclaurin et al.)

Large adiabatic geometric phase in rotating single atom-scale diamond
defects
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D. Maclaurin, M. W. Doherty, L. C. L. Hollenberg, A. M. Martin
We demonstrate that the internal magnetic states of a single nitrogen-vacancy
defect, within a rotating diamond crystal, acquire geometric phases. The
geometric phase shift is manifest as a relative phase between components of a
superposition of magnetic substates. We demonstrate that under reasonable
experimental conditions a phase shift of up to four radians could be measured.
Such a measurement of the accumulation of a geometric phase, due to macroscopic
rotation, would be the first for a single atom-scale quantum system.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3472

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