Quantum Zeno and Zeno-like effects in nitrogen vacancy centers

Jing Qiu; Yang-Yang Wang; Zhang-Qi Yin; Mei Zhang; Qing Ai; Fu-Guo Deng

doi:10.1038/srep17615

Quantum Zeno and Zeno-like effects in nitrogen vacancy centers

Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 1:5:17615. doi: 10.1038/srep17615.

Authors

Jing Qiu¹, Yang-Yang Wang¹, Zhang-Qi Yin², Mei Zhang¹, Qing Ai¹, Fu-Guo Deng¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
² Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

Abstract

We present a proposal to realize the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum Zeno-like effect (QZLE) in a proximal (13)C nuclear spin by controlling a proximal electron spin of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center. The measurement is performed by applying a microwave pulse to induce the transition between different electronic spin states. Under the practical experimental conditions, our calculations show that there exist both QZE and QZLE in a (13)C nuclear spin in the vicinity of an NV center.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't