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Optical hyperpolarization of nitrogen donor spins in bulk diamond

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arxiv 1612.08104 v1 pith:DXBDHCI3 submitted 2016-12-23 cond-mat.mes-hall

Optical hyperpolarization of nitrogen donor spins in bulk diamond

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We report hyperpolarization of the electronic spins associated with substitutional nitrogen defects in bulk diamond crystal. Hyperpolarization is achieved by optical pumping of nitrogen vacancy centers followed by rapid cross relaxation at the energy level matching condition in a 51 mT bias field. The maximum observed donor spin polarization is 0.9 \% corresponding to an enhancement by 25 compared to the thermal Boltzmann polarization. A further accumulation of polarization is impeded by an anomalous optical saturation effect that we attribute to charge state conversion processes. Hyperpolarized nitrogen donors may form a useful resource for increasing the efficiency of diamond-based dynamic nuclear polarization devices.

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