1305.0157 (Jingwei Zhou et al.)

Observation of Time-domain Rabi Oscillations in the Landau-Zener Regime
with a Single Electronic Spin    [PDF]

Jingwei Zhou, Pu Huang, Qi Zhang, Zixiang Wang, Tian Tan, Xiangkun Xu, Fazhan Shi, Xing Rong, S. Ashhab, Jiangfeng Du

Under resonant conditions, a long sequence of landau-zener transitions can lead to Rabi oscillations. Using a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin in diamond, we investigated the interference between more than 100 Landau-Zener processes. We observed the new type of Rabi oscillations of the electron spin resulting from the interference between successive Landau-Zener processes in various regimes, including both slow and fast passages. The combination of the control techniques and the favorable coherent properties of NV centers provides an excellent experimental platform to study a variety of quantum dynamical phenomena.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0157