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Experimental realization of time-dependent phase-modulated continuous dynamical decoupling

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Publication Date2017-07-25
JournalPhysical review. A/Physical review, A
AuthorsDemitry Farfurnik, N. Aharon, I. Cohen, Yonatan Hovav, Alex Retzker
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Citations43

The coherence times achieved with continuous dynamical decoupling techniques\nare often limited by fluctuations in the driving amplitude. In this work, we\nuse time-dependent phase-modulated continuous driving to increase the\nrobustness against such fluctuations in a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy\ncenters in diamond. Considering realistic experimental errors in the system, we\nidentify the optimal modulation strength, and demonstrate an improvement of an\norder of magnitude in the spin-preservation of arbitrary states over\nconventional single continuous driving. The phase-modulated driving exhibits\ncomparable results to previously examined amplitude-modulated techniques, and\nis expected to outperform them in experimental systems having higher phase\naccuracy. The proposed technique could open new avenues for quantum information\nprocessing and many body physics, in systems dominated by high frequency\nspin-bath noise, for which pulsed dynamical decoupling is less effective.\n