Echo Trains in Pulsed Electron Spin Resonance of a Strongly Coupled Spin Ensemble

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Sep 25;125(13):137701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.137701.

Abstract

We report on a novel dynamical phenomenon in electron spin resonance experiments of phosphorus donors. When strongly coupling the paramagnetic ensemble to a superconducting lumped element resonator, the coherent exchange between these two subsystems leads to a train of periodic, self-stimulated echoes after a conventional Hahn echo pulse sequence. The presence of these multiecho signatures is explained using a simple model based on spins rotating on the Bloch sphere, backed up by numerical calculations using the inhomogeneous Tavis-Cummings Hamiltonian.