Overtone Rabi oscillation of optically polarized triplet electron spins and nuclear hyperpolarization in powderKoichiro Miyanishi, Takuya F. Segawa, Makoto Negoro, Akinori Kagawa, Kazuyuki Takedahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10498
Overtone Rabi oscillation of optically polarized triplet electron spins and nuclear hyperpolarization in powderWe report coherent overtone Rabi oscillations of optically-polarized triplet electron spins and nuclear hyperpolarization in powder samples at room temperature. The strong orientation dependence through the zero-field splitting (ZFS) interaction in the single-quantum transition is overcome by coherently driving the significantly narrower overtone transition. Analytical formulas for the overtone lineshape and nutation functions for axially symmetric ZFS interactions are derived. Overtone Rabi os…