Bunching and antibunching in four wave mixing NV center in diamond

Abstract

The determination of classical and quantum states through photon bunching and anti-bunching like phenomena may have potential applications in quantum information processing and long-distance quantum communications. We report the photon bunching and multi anti-bunching like phenomena by generating multi-order fluorescence and four-wave mixing (FWM) at room temperature using the Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. We have implied FWM process to demonstrate the interference pattern emerging from NV of nano-crystals in classical, nonclassical and intermediate (classical and nonclassical) regimes. Intersystem crossing is controlled by the fluence of incident beams. The interference pattern from dominant ionization of NV- to NVo and NVo to NV- suggests the bunching and anti-bunching like phenomena of photons, respectively.