Spectroscopic analysis reveals revised nitrogen and carbon hyperfine parameters in diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers, indicating interactions with six rather than three second-neighbor carbon atoms.
The ¹⁴N, ¹⁵N, and ¹³C hyperfine interactions in the ground state of the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy (NV^-) center have been investigated using electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectroscopy. The previously published parameters for the ¹⁴N hyperfine interaction do not produce a satisfactory fit to the experimental NV^- electron-paramagnetic-resonance data. The small anisotropic component of the NV^- hyperfine interaction can be explained from dipolar interaction between the nitrogen nucleus and the unpaired-electron probability density localized on the three carbon atoms neighboring the vacancy. Optical spin polarization of the NV^- ground state was used to enhance the electron-paramagnetic-resonance sensitivity enabling detailed study of the hyperfine interaction with ¹³C neighbors. The data confirmed the identification of three equivalent carbon nearest neighbors but indicated the next largest ¹³C interaction is with six, rather than as previously assumed three, equivalent neighboring carbon atoms.
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