Talk:Nitrogen-vacancy center

Charge state
This is a bit of an odd article, more about potential applications of the defect than the actual defect itself, but is should at least acknowledge that the N-V centre being referred to is in regarded as holding a negative charge state (as distinct from the NV0 defect) Khcf6971 (talk) 16:25, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have inserted a note in the lead and included charge state manipulation in the body of the article BonPhire (talk) 09:55, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Caption - Energies wrong
Silly point maybe - but I think the energies of the ground state and excited state splittings are wrong. 1027G > ~12 u eV not 5.6 u eV. (ms * ge * uB * B) Similiarly the Excited state should be about 1/2 of the stated value. I suspect that someone has converted the magnetic field to cause the crossing as if it was a S=1/2 system rather than S=1.

--Wideofthemark (talk) 23:30, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Restructuring and Clarifying
I am currently going over this article. I am planning to restructure it, especially the spin manipulation and optical property parts. I think some details are outdated, some formulations are too complex and certain details need streamlining. If you have additional comments, feel free to visit my sandbox or talk page User:BonPhire/Nitrogen-vacancy_center. BonPhire (talk) 09:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)