The decoherence of the electron spin and meta-stability of \(^{13}C\) nuclear spins in diamond (Q400859)

Summary: Following the recent successful experimental manipulation of entangled \(^{13}C\) atoms on the surface of Diamond, we calculate the decoherence of the electron spin in Nitrogen Vacancy \(NV\) centers of Diamond via a nonperturbative treatment of the time-dependent Greens function of a Central-Spin model in order to identify the Replica Symmetry Breaking mechanism associated with intersystem mixing between the \(m_s=0\) sublevel of the \(^3A_2\) and \(^1A_1\) states of the \(NV^-\) centers, which we identify as mediated via the meta-stability of 13C nuclei bath processes in our calculations. Rather than the standard exciton-based calculation scheme used for quantum dots, we argue that a new scheme is needed to formally treat the Replica Symmetry Breaking of the \(^3A_2\to^3E\) excitations of the \(NV^-\) centers, which we define by extending the existing Generalized Master Equation formalism via the use of fractional time derivatives. Our calculations allow us to accurately quantify the dangerously irrelevant scaling associated with the Replica Symmetry Breaking and provide an explanation for the experimentally observed room temperature stability of Diamond for Quantum Computing applications.