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Optical properties of SiV and GeV color centers in nanodiamonds under hydrostatic pressures up to 180 GPa

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Publication Date2022-12-19
JournalPhysical review. B./Physical review. B
AuthorsBaptiste Vindolet, Marie‐Pierre Adam, LoĆÆc Toraille, Mayeul Chipaux, Antoine Hilberer
InstitutionsCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEA DAM Ǝle-de-France
Citations18

We investigate the optical properties of silicon-vacancy (SiV) and germanium-vacancy (GeV) color centers in nanodiamonds under hydrostatic pressure up to 180 GPa. The nanodiamonds were synthesized by Si-or Ge-doped plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition and, for our experiment, pressurized in a diamond anvil cell. Under hydrostatic pressure we observe blueshifts of the SiV and GeV zero-phonon lines by 17 THz (70 meV) and 78 THz (320 meV), respectively. These measured pressure-induced shifts are in good agreement with ab initio calculations that take into account the lattice compression based on the equation of state of diamond and that are extended to the case of the tin-vacancy (SnV) center. This work provides guidance on the use of group-IV-vacancy centers as quantum sensors under extreme pressures that will exploit their specific optical and spin properties induced by their intrinsic inversion-symmetric structure.

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