The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond: the electronic solution

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This work was supported by the Australian Research Council under the Discovery Project scheme DP0986635. During the final stages of preparation of the manuscript, the authors became aware of the work of J R Maze [34], which considers similar topics to those addressed in this paper. While the work [34] attempts to describe the NV<SUP>-</SUP> centre from the established molecular model viewpoint, our work employs quite distinct techniques and arguments, and in several key instances we arrive at differing results as have been indicated.