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Spin systems in solid state materials are promising qubit candidates for quantum information or quantum sensing. A major prerequisite here is the coherence of spin phase oscillations. In this work, we show a control sequence which, by…

Electronic spin superposition states enable nanoscale sensing through their sensitivity to the local environment, yet their sensitivity to vibrational motion also limits their coherence times. In molecular spin systems, chemical tunability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Stefan H. Lohaus , Kay T. Xia , Yongqiang Cheng , Ryan G. Hadt

The measurement of single quanta in a collection of coherently interacting objects is transformative in the investigations of emergent quantum phenomena. An isolated nuclear-spin ensemble is a remarkable platform owing to its coherence, but…

Spin-torque nano-oscillators can emulate neurons at the nanoscale. Recent works show that the non-linearity of their oscillation amplitude can be leveraged to achieve waveform classification for an input signal encoded in the amplitude of…

In the weak ferromagnetic MnCO$_3$ system, a low-frequency collective spin excitation (magnon) is the hybridized oscillation of nuclear and electron spins coupled through the hyperfine interaction. By using a split-ring resonator, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Leonid V. Abdurakhimov , Yuriy M. Bunkov , Denis Konstantinov

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is the method of choice for characterizing paramagnetic impurities, with applications ranging from chemistry to quantum computing, but it gives access only to ensemble-averaged quantities due to…

We analyze the creation of spin squeezed atomic ensembles by simultaneous dispersive interactions with several optical frequencies. A judicious choice of optical parameters enables optimization of an interferometric detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 M. Saffman , D. Oblak , J. Appel , E. S. Polzik

A minimally invasive technique is proposed for detecting the differential spin conductance and spin current noise across a junction between two quantum magnets using a high-quality microwave resonator coupled to a transmission line which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Joshua Aftergood , Mircea Trif , So Takei

Time-dependent linear coupling between macroscopic quantum resonator modes generates both a parametric amplification also known as a {}"squeezing operation" and a beam splitter operation, analogous to quantum optical systems. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 L. Tian , M. S. Allman , R. W. Simmonds

We consider fluctuations of the electronic spin due to coupling to nuclear spin. Noise spectroscopy of an electronic spin can be revealed in the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM). We argue that the noise spectroscopy of electronic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Balatsky , J. Fransson , D. Mozyrsky , Yishay Manassen

Soon after the first measurements of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in a condensed matter system, Bloch predicted the presence of statistical fluctuations proportional to $1/\sqrt{N}$ in the polarization of an ensemble of $N$ spins. First…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 P. Peddibhotla , F. Xue , H. I. T. Hauge , S. Assali , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , M. Poggio

Quantum sensors have recently achieved to detect the magnetic moment of few or single nuclear spins and measure their magnetic resonance (NMR) signal. However, the spectral resolution, a key feature of NMR, has been limited by relaxation of…

Optically active spin defects in solids offer promising platforms to investigate nuclear spin clusters with high sensitivity and atomic-site resolution. To leverage near-surface defects for molecular structure analysis in chemical and…

The ability to sense the magnetic state of individual magnetic nano-objects is a key capability for powerful applications ranging from readout of ultra-dense magnetic memory to the measurement of spins in complex structures with nanometer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Shichao Yan , Luigi Malavolti , Jacob A. J. Burgess , Andrea Droghetti , Angel Rubio , Sebastian Loth

We theoretically analyze the performance of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with a superconducting flux qubit (FQ). Such NMR with the FQ is attractive because of the possibility to detect the relatively small number of…

We theoretically explore protocols for measuring the spin polarization of an ensemble of solid-state spins, with precision at or below the standard quantum limit. Such measurements in the solid-state are challenging, as standard approaches…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect center in diamond has demonstrated great capability for nanoscale magnetic sensing and imaging for both static and periodically modulated target fields. However, it remains a challenge to detect and image…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Lan Luan , Michael S. Grinolds , Sungkun Hong , Patrick Maletinsky , Ronald L. Walsworth , Amir Yacoby

We discuss nuclear spin comagnetometers based on ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance in mixtures of miscible solvents, each rich in a different nuclear spin. In one version thereof, Larmor precession of protons and ${\rm ^{19}F}$…

Nuclear magnetic resonance detection in ultra low field regime enables the measurement of different components of a spurious remanence in the polymeric material constituting the sample container. A differential atomic magnetometer detects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-29 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Leonardo Stiaccini , Antonio Vigilante

Nuclear spin imaging at the atomic level is essential for the understanding of fundamental biological phenomena and for applications such as drug discovery. The advent of novel nano-scale sensors has given hope of achieving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Ashok Ajoy , Ulf Bissbort , Mikhail D. Lukin , Ronald L. Walsworth , Paola Cappellaro