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Spin Coherence During Optical Excitation of a Single NV Center in Diamond
G. D. Fuchs, A. L. Falk, V. V. Dobrovitski, D. D. Awschalom
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We examine the quantum spin state of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond at room temperature as it makes a transition from the orbital ground-state (GS) to the orbital excited-state (ES) during non-resonant optical excitation. While the fluorescence read-out of NV-center spins relies on conservation of the longitudinal spin projection during optical excitation, the question of quantum phase preservation has not been examined. Using Ramsey measurements and quantum process tomography, we establish limits on NV center spin decoherence induced during optical excitation. Treating the optical excitation and ES spin precession as a quantum process, we measure a process fidelity of F=0.87\pm0.03, which includes ES spin dephasing during measurement. Extrapolation to the moment of optical excitation yields F\approx0.95. This result demonstrates that ES spin interactions may be used as a resource for quantum control because the quantum spin state can survive incoherent orbital transitions.
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