Researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin,
the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden and the Ioffe Institute in St.
Petersburg have demonstrated the use of elastic vibrations to
manipulate the spin states of optically active color centers in SiC
at room temperature. They show a non-trivial dependence of the
acoustically induced spin transitions on the spin quantization
direction, which can lead to chiral spin-acoustic resonances. These
findings are important for applications in future
quantum-electronic devices and have recently been published in
Physical Review Letters.
