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Nonlinear optical charge state switching and pumping to a diamond NV center dark state

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Pith's one-line read Intense infrared light quenches NV emission through two-photon pumping into a neutral quartet state, identifying the long-standing dark state.

desk verdict Plausible first experimental handle on the NV 4A2 dark state, but the 966 nm two-photon argument is partly circular and the abstract contradicts the body. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.10638 v2 pith:MR7XCLDR submitted 2024-11-16 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hallphysics.optics

Prasoon K. Shandilya , Vinaya K. Kavatamane , Sigurd Fl{aa}gan , David P. Lake , Denis Sukachev , Paul E. Barclay This is my paper · ORCID
classification quant-phcond-mat.mes-hallphysics.optics
keywords nitrogen-vacancycenterdarkstatetwo-photonionizationNV0quartet4A2photoluminescencequenchingwhisperinggallerymodemicrodiskchargedynamicsinfraredfieldsensing
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The reading

This paper identifies the long-standing "dark state" that quenches nitrogen-vacancy photoluminescence under intense infrared fields, and argues that it is the $^4A_2$ quartet state of the neutrally charged NV$^0$ center. The claim is that two infrared photons ionize a green-excited NV$^-$ center from its $^3E$ excited state into $^4A_2$, trapping population in a non-fluorescent state; the microdisk cavity supplies field intensities that make the quenching grow nonlinearly with intracavity photon number. Fits to a seven-level rate-equation model at 966 nm and 1524 nm constrain the quartet to lie more than 0.58 eV above the NV$^0$ ground state, its recombination back to NV$^-$ to cost less than 2.01 eV, and its intrinsic lifetime to be in the low-microsecond range. If correct, this would resolve the physics behind IR-induced quenching in STED nanoscopy, levitated-diamond experiments, and spin-optomechanical devices, and would turn the quenching itself into a local infrared-field sensor.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the seven-level rate-equation model of the NV$^-$/NV$^0$ charge-state system, with the $^4A_2$ quartet of NV$^0$ as the dark state. The key mechanism is the two-photon ionization rate $K^i_{25}$, which scales as $N_{IR}^2$ and moves population from the NV$^-$ excited state $^3E$ into $^4A_2$; the microdisk cavity pushes the intracavity photon number $N_{IR}$ to $10^5$-$10^6$ so that the quadratic term dominates. A confinement factor $\Gamma^{(p)}$ computed from finite-element mode profiles converts the measured rates into cross-sections by accounting for the overlap of the IR mode, the green excitation spot, and the mode into which NV emission is collected.

What would settle it

A direct pulsed-IR recovery measurement would settle the assignment: the fits put the $^4A_2$ decay rate near 56 kHz, so after an intense IR pulse the NV PL should recover with a time constant of roughly tens of microseconds; if the recovery instead follows the roughly 0.4 MHz cutoff already seen in the modulation data, the bottleneck is not the quartet state.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the NV dark state reached by intense infrared light is the $^4A_2$ quartet state of neutral NV$^0$, populated by two-photon photoionization: a rate proportional to the square of the intracavity infrared photon number drives population from the $^3E$ excited state of NV$^-$ into the quartet. Because non-radiative decay out of $^4A_2$ is slow, high infrared intensity traps a large population there, and emission from both NV$^0$ and NV$^-$ is quenched by more than 90% for cavity-coupled centers. The authors build a seven-level model, following the published ab initio level scheme for NV charge states, and keep only the one IR-dependent ionization path and two recombination paths that satisfy the energy thresholds at both 966 nm and 1524 nm. The fits give $E(^4A_2)-E(^2E) > 0.58$ eV, $R(^4A_2 \to {}^3A_2) < 2.01$ eV, and quantified one-photon recombination and two-photon ionization cross-sections at both wavelengths, and the quenching contrast rolls off above roughly 0.4 MHz when the IR field is modulated.

Load-bearing premise

The identification stands on the assumed list of NV states and energy thresholds: if a different state, such as another charge state, a surface trap, or a spin-dependent pathway, produces the same two-photon-like quenching, the quartet assignment fails.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The long-standing dark state in intense IR fields is identified as the $^4A_2$ quartet of NV$^0$, so IR-induced PL quenching can be treated as a two-photon charge-state process and predicted from the ionization and recombination cross-sections.
  • The energy bounds are tightened to $E(^4A_2)-E(^2E) > 0.58$ eV and $R(^4A_2 \to {}^3A_2) < 2.01$ eV, with recombination accessible by a single green photon.
  • Because the quenching is nonlinear in IR intensity and localized to the cavity modes, it can serve as a local infrared-field imaging method and may sharpen spatial resolution in super-resolution microscopy; 1550 nm light is sufficient for STED-style depletion.
  • The slow $^4A_2$ bottleneck sets an engineering limit on IR-modulated NV photonics: PL contrast to IR modulation drops near 0.4 MHz, constraining optical switching and readout speeds.
  • Device classes that rely on intense IR fields, including levitated diamond nanoparticles, spin-optomechanical cavities, and absorption-based magnetometers, will inherit this photodynamics and should account for $^4A_2$ charging when predicting noise and contrast.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the quartet identification is correct, the quenching image is effectively a map of the squared infrared whispering-gallery field; a single calibration at one power would then convert any measured PL contrast into local IR intensity, because the ionization rate scales as $N_{IR}^2$.
  • A wavelength test the paper does not run: an intermediate IR wavelength such as 1300 nm should show the same two-photon onset if the process is common to both studied wavelengths, whereas wavelength-specific single-photon processes would shift the onset with photon energy.
  • Because $^4A_2$ is a spin-3/2 quartet with microsecond lifetime, a two-pulse experiment (green pump, IR ionize, delayed green probe) could measure the quartet population directly through its effect on the NV$^-$ spin state after recombination, testing whether recombination preserves spin polarization and whether the state is observable by magnetic resonance.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This manuscript reports cavity-enhanced infrared (IR) quenching of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) photoluminescence in diamond microdisks at 966 nm and 1524 nm, with intracavity photon number spanning roughly six orders of magnitude. The authors interpret the non-monotonic NV0/NV- PL response using a seven-level rate-equation model adopted from Razinkovas et al., in which two IR photons ionize the NV- excited state 3E to the NV0 quartet state 4A2, one IR photon drives recombination from the NV0 excited state 2A2 to the NV- singlet state 1E, and one green photon drives recombination from 4A2 to the NV- ground state 3A2. From the fits and energy-threshold arguments they derive a lower bound Delta0 = E(4A2)-E(2E) > 0.58 eV, an upper bound R(4A2 -> 3A2) < 2.01 eV, one- and two-photon cross-sections for both IR wavelengths, and a dark-state decay scale. They also demonstrate quenching-based IR field imaging and study the time-resolved response under modulated IR excitation. The central claim is that the long-sought dark state accessed by intense IR fields is the 4A2 quartet of neutral NV.

Significance. If the identification is correct, the paper resolves a long-standing question about the NV dark state under intense IR fields, with direct implications for STED-style super-resolution, levitated diamond optomechanics, IR absorption magnetometry, and charge-based quantum memories. The study has substantial strengths: the data cover a very wide dynamic range, the model reproduces the non-monotonic PL response at two wavelengths and three green powers, the state model and energy thresholds are taken from independent ab initio work, and the FEM overlap calculations provide a careful link between measured intracavity photon number and per-NV transition rates. The time-domain modulation data add a separate constraint. The main weakness is that the identification of 4A2 is indirect: it rests on model selection and on a circular energy argument for the 966 nm two-photon requirement, and the fitted rates are quoted without uncertainties.

major comments (4)
  1. [Main text, 'The agreement between our measurements...' and SI, item (a4), Eq. (18)] The inference Delta0 > 0.58 eV is circular as presented. The text rules out one-photon 966 nm ionization of 3E -> 4A2 by stating that 'two IR photons are required to overcome the ionization potential', and then uses that requirement with IP(3E -> 2E) = 0.70 eV to derive Delta0 > 0.58 eV. But whether one 966 nm photon suffices is precisely the point under test, and the theoretical prior Delta0 = 0.48-0.68 eV includes values below 0.58 eV for which a single 966 nm photon energetically exceeds the threshold. The empirical argument that the 966 nm and 1524 nm responses are 'qualitatively similar' does not remove this concern, because the fitted two-photon cross-sections differ by roughly 3500x (3.9x10^-54 vs 1.1x10^-57 m^4 s, Table S2) and no model that includes a one-photon 966 ionization channel plus the 1524 nm two-photon channel is reported. Please add a model-comparison test of this alternative or a direct log-log scaling measurement of the quenching onset at 966 nm, and revise the Delta0 bound accordingly.
  2. [Main text, 'To model the charge state dynamics... We also disregard spin-dependent ionization'] The central identification of 4A2 as the dark state is load-bearing but is inferred, not directly detected. The PL measurements integrate charge-state emission, and the model excludes spin-dependent ionization, NV+ formation, and surface-related metastable states without a quantitative argument that these alternatives would fail to reproduce the same two-photon-like quenching. Please state explicitly what observations discriminate 4A2 from these alternative dark-state candidates, or limit the central claim to consistency with the 4A2 model rather than proof that 4A2 is uniquely responsible.
  3. [Table S2 and fits in Fig. 3(a)] Nine rates are fitted jointly, but the paper reports no error bars, covariance information, or goodness-of-fit metrics for the fitted parameters. Since the quoted cross-sections and the dark-state decay rate are derived from these rates, the numerical values (e.g., sigma^(2)_NV(966 nm) = 3.9x10^-54 m^4 s and the total decay K56 + K_r51 ~ 55.7 kHz) currently lack stated uncertainty. A bootstrap or identifiability analysis, or at least confidence intervals on the central rates, is needed before the quantitative claims can be used by others.
  4. [Main text, 'Time-resolved dynamics'] The modulation experiment shows a contrast cutoff near 0.4 MHz, whereas the rate-equation fit predicts a 55.7 kHz decay rate corresponding to roughly 18 microseconds. The paper attributes the discrepancy to the modulator's finite extinction, but does not test this explanation. Because the abstract claims an intrinsic 4A2 lifetime of 1.78-6.06 microseconds and the body does not derive that range, the relation between the fitted decay rate, the modulation response, and the quoted lifetime should be clarified and, if possible, reconciled with a quantitative model of the modulation contrast.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract] The supplied abstract states Delta0 < 0.58 eV, while the main text and SI derive Delta0 > 0.58 eV. The sign error must be corrected; as written, the abstract directly contradicts the body and would imply that a one-photon 966 nm channel is energetically open.
  2. [Abstract and Table S2] The abstract's intrinsic lifetime range 1.78-6.06 microseconds is not explained or referenced in the body or SI; the effective decay rate from Table S2 is about 55.7 kHz, corresponding to 18 microseconds. Please add a derivation or a citation for the quoted range.
  3. [Eqs. (1)-(3) and Table S2] The notation K vs. K-bar is used inconsistently: Eq. (1) writes K^i_25 = K-bar^i_25,2-IR(N_IR^2) + K^i_25,1-G(P_G), but Table S2 uses K_i25,2-IR without a bar. Please unify the notation.
  4. [Fig. 4(d)] The predicted contrast curve for the modulation-frequency response is not shown with any uncertainty band, and the finite extinction of the EOM enters through an ad hoc correction. Adding error bars or a shaded range would help readers judge the claimed 0.4 MHz cutoff.
  5. [Main text, 'The diamond microdisk studied here'] The text mentions '1500 nm and 960 nm wavelength bands' while the measurements use 1524 nm and 966 nm; please harmonize the wavelengths in this sentence.

Circularity Check

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The 966 nm two-photon claim is partially circular: the inferred Δ0 > 0.58 eV bound is the assumed photon order restated as an energy inequality.

  1. self definitional [Main text, 'The agreement between our measurements and model...' paragraph; SI, 'Photoionization from the 3E excited state' item (a4, SI Eq. 18)]
    "since two IR photons are required to overcome the ionization potential (IP) of 3E → 2E (0.70 eV [57]), excluding single IR photons from this process, we can infer that ∆0 + IP(3E →2 E) > ℏω966 nm, constraining ∆0 > 0.58 eV."

    The claim under test is that 3E→4A2 ionization at 966 nm requires two photons. Given IP(3E→4A2) = 0.70 eV + Δ0 (SI Eq. 18) and ℏω966 nm = 1.28 eV, 'two IR photons are required' is algebraically equivalent to Δ0 > 0.58 eV. The paper uses that requirement as a premise, derives the inequality from it, and reports the result as a measured constraint on Δ0. The theoretical prior is Δ0 = 0.48–0.68 eV (SI), so the lower half of the prior leaves a one-photon 966 nm channel energetically open.

full rationale

The 1524 nm two-photon ionization and the identification of the 4A2 quartet as the dark state rest on external ab initio state structure (Razinkovas et al.) plus a rate-equation fit whose fitted quantities are cross-sections and decay constants, not restatements of the conclusion; that portion is not circular. The circularity is concentrated in the 966 nm energy argument: the reported Δ0 > 0.58 eV constraint is the assumed two-photon order rewritten as an inequality, not an independent measurement, and the manuscript is internally inconsistent about the bound (abstract states < 0.58 eV; body states > 0.58 eV). Because the lower theoretical estimates of Δ0 admit a one-photon 966 nm ionization channel, and because the only empirical basis for excluding it is qualitative similarity to the 1524 nm response plus an untested alternative model, this step is load-bearing for the headline 'two IR photons' claim at 966 nm and for the stated recombination threshold. Hence a partial-circularity score of 6 is appropriate rather than a clean bill.

Assumptions & free parameters 9 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Everything material is borrowed from prior measurement or theory or fitted here. No new entities are invented. The model and its process list are the main load-bearing structure; the 4A2 identification is only as strong as the assumption that the process selection is complete.

free parameters (9)
  • K_i_25,2-IR (966 nm) = 5.5 mHz/photon^2
    Two-photon ionization rate from 3E to 4A2 at 966 nm; fitted to PL vs NIR curves (Table S2).
  • K_i_25,2-IR (1524 nm) = 1.7 uHz/photon^2
    Same process at 1524 nm; fitted.
  • K_r_74,1-IR (966 nm) = 22.8 Hz/photon
    One-photon recombination 2A2 to 1E at 966 nm; fitted.
  • K_r_74,1-IR (1524 nm) = 0.6 Hz/photon
    Same recombination at 1524 nm; fitted.
  • K_i_25,1-G = 10.3 kHz/mW
    One-green-photon ionization 3E to 4A2; fitted.
  • K_r_51,1-G = 12.6 kHz/mW
    One-green-photon recombination 4A2 to 3A2; fitted.
  • K_r_74,1-G = 3 kHz/mW
    One-green-photon recombination 2A2 to 1E; fitted.
  • K56 = 4 kHz
    Non-radiative decay rate from 4A2 to 2E; fitted.
  • K75 = 1.4 kHz
    Additional decay rate from level 7; fitted.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The NV state structure and ionization/recombination pathways are those of Razinkovas et al., with 3E -> 4A2 as the lowest-energy photoionization channel.
    Central model assumption, cited as Ref. [43] and used to select processes in Fig. S5.
  • domain assumption Energy threshold constants from prior work: IP(3A2->2E) = 2.65 eV, IP(3E->2E) = 0.70 eV, E(1E)-E(3A2) = 0.38 eV, E(4A2)-E(2E) = 0.48-0.68 eV.
    Used to decide which single and two photon processes are energetically allowed; from Refs. [14,15,16,21].
  • ad hoc to paper Qualitatively similar response at 966 nm and 1524 nm implies the responsible ionization and recombination processes have the same photon order at both wavelengths.
    Key load-bearing inference that eliminates single-photon 966 nm ionization and selects two-photon 4A2 access; not independently tested.
  • domain assumption Spin-dependent ionization is negligible and green pumping initializes NVs in the ms = 0 sublevel of the NV- ground state.
    Explicitly stated in the model paragraph; simplifies the rate equations and affects predicted populations.
  • domain assumption FEM-computed overlap factors Gamma and Gamma^(2), with a uniform green spot aligned to the IR field maximum, correctly convert NIR to spatially averaged transition rates.
    Used to extract cross-sections from fitted rates (Table S1, Fig. S3).

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abstract

The photodynamics of diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers limits their performance in many quantum technologies. Quenching of photoluminescence, which degrades NV readout, is commonly ascribed to a dark state that is not fully understood. Using a nanoscale cavity to generate intense infrared fields that quench NV emission nonlinearly with field intensity, we show that the dark state is accessed by two-photon pumping into the $^4\!A_2$ quartet state of the neutrally charged NV (NV$^0$). We constrain this state's energy relative to the NV$^0$ ground-state ($^2\!E$) to ${<}0.58$\,eV and the recombination energy threshold to the NV$^-$ ground state ($^3\!A_2$) to $\leq2.33\,\text{eV}$. Furthermore, we estimate the intrinsic lifetime of $^4\!A_2$ state to be $1.78-6.06\,\mu\text{s}$ and show that accessing this state allows sensing of local infrared fields. This new understanding will allow predictions of the limits of NV technologies reliant upon intense fields, including levitated systems, spin--optomechanical devices, and absorption--based magnetometers.

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