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Recent experiments have demonstrated Rabi-oscillations, superradiant pulses and stimulated emission from negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) center spins in microwave resonators. These phenomena witness the kind of collective and strong coupling which has been the prerequisite for observation of superradiant lasing in the optical frequency regime. In this article, we investigate the possibility to employ coherence, present in both the collective NV− spin ensemble and the microwave field, to achieve a superradiant maser. Our calculations show that a superradiant maser with a linewidth below millihertz can be achieved with moderate kilohertz incoherent pumping of over 1014 spins at room temperature. We show that the superradiant masing prevails in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening, and we present numerical and analytical studies of the dependence of the phenomenon on the various physical parameters.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12004344, and 62027816), and the Danish National Research Foundation through the Center of Excellence for Complex Quantum Systems (Grant No. DNRF156).
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Wu, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, X. et al. A superradiant maser with nitrogen-vacancy center spins. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 217311 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1780-6
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