Pulsed EPR of P1 centers in synthetic diamond under bichromatic excitation conditions

Abstract

The dynamics of the interaction of P1 centers in synthetic diamond with a bichromatic radiation, representing microwave (MW) and radio frequency (RF) fields in a configuration characteristic of the stationary EPR spectroscopy with modulated magnetic field, has been studied using the transient nutation technique. It is demonstrated that a thermobaric treatment of the crystal leads to an increase in the phase relaxation time of P1 centers. Additional increase in this relaxation time is observed under the conditions of a nutation resonance, where the RF field frequency is close to the effective Rabi frequency in the MW field. These data are taken into account in considering the inversion of the EPR lines of P1 centers that was recently discovered in the stationary EPR.