Floquet Prethermalization with Lifetime Exceeding 90 s in a Bulk Hyperpolarized Solid.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 Oct 2021
Historique:
received: 12 05 2021
accepted: 09 09 2021
entrez: 5 11 2021
pubmed: 6 11 2021
medline: 6 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We report the observation of long-lived Floquet prethermal states in a bulk solid composed of dipolar-coupled ^{13}C nuclei in diamond at room temperature. For precessing nuclear spins prepared in an initial transverse state, we demonstrate pulsed spin-lock Floquet control that prevents their decay over multiple-minute-long periods. We observe Floquet prethermal lifetimes T_{2}^{'}≈90.9  s, extended >60 000-fold over the nuclear free induction decay times. The spins themselves are continuously interrogated for ∼10  min, corresponding to the application of ≈5.8×10^{6} control pulses. The ^{13}C nuclei are optically hyperpolarized by lattice nitrogen vacancy centers; the combination of hyperpolarization and continuous spin readout yields significant signal-to-noise ratio in the measurements. This allows probing the Floquet thermalization dynamics with unprecedented clarity. We identify four characteristic regimes of the thermalization process, discerning short-time transient processes leading to the prethermal plateau and long-time system heating toward infinite temperature. This Letter points to new opportunities possible via Floquet control in networks of dilute, randomly distributed, low-sensitivity nuclei. In particular, the combination of minutes-long prethermal lifetimes and continuous spin interrogation opens avenues for quantum sensors constructed from hyperpolarized Floquet prethermal nuclei.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34739295
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.170603
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

170603

Auteurs

William Beatrez (W)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Otto Janes (O)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Amala Akkiraju (A)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Arjun Pillai (A)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Alexander Oddo (A)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Paul Reshetikhin (P)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Emanuel Druga (E)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Maxwell McAllister (M)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Mark Elo (M)

Tabor Electronics, Inc., Hatasia 9, Nesher 3660301, Israel.

Benjamin Gilbert (B)

Energy Geoscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Dieter Suter (D)

Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.

Ashok Ajoy (A)

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

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