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Molecular nanomagnets are compounds characterized by a high-spin magnetic core that is protected by organic ligands. They have recently gained attention as potential quantum information carriers in solid-state quantum computing platforms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alessandra Cammarata , Steve Campbell , Mauro Paternostro

We derive a master equation that allows us to study non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum antiferromagnet. By resorting to spin-wave theory, we obtain a closed analytic form for the magnon decay rates. These turn out to be closely related…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Ángel Rivas , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Thermal and electrical injection and transport of magnon spins in magnetic insulators is conventionally understood by the non-equilibrium population of magnons. However, this view is challenged by several recent experiments in noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiyin Ye , Tao Yu

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) was successfully employed to test several protocols and ideas in Quantum Information Science. In most of these implementations the existence of entanglement was ruled out. This fact introduced concerns and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. O. Soares-Pinto , R. Auccaise , J. Maziero , A. Gavini-Viana , R. M. Serra , L. C. Céleri

We uncover a new class of dynamical quantum instability in driven magnets leading to emergent enhancement of antiferromagnetic correlations even for purely ferromagnetic microscopic couplings. A primary parametric amplification creates a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Hossein Hosseinabadi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Eugene Demler , Jamir Marino

Recently gained insights into equilibrium squeezing and entanglement harbored by magnets point towards exciting opportunities for quantum science and technology, while concrete protocols for exploiting these are needed. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Anna-Luisa E. Römling , Alejandro Vivas-Viaña , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Akashdeep Kamra

Photon antibunching in resonance fluorescence - the emission from a single, resonantly driven two-level quantum emitter - is a paradigmatic signature of nonclassical light. Photon entanglement, by contrast, manifests as correlations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Xin-Xin Hu , Gabriele Maron , Luke Masters , Arno Rauschenbeutel , Jürgen Volz

At low temperature, information can be stored in the orientation of the localized magnetic moment of an adatom. However, scattering of electrons and phonons with the nanomagnet leads its state to have incoherent classical dynamics and might…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 M. Marciani , C. Hübner , B. Baxevanis

In $d$-electron systems, there can also be intricate interplay between Kondo coupling and magnetic interactions as that in $f$-electron systems, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, using inelastic neutron scattering, we…

We report on the first example of quantum coherence between the spins of muons and quadrupolar nuclei. We observe this effect in vanadium intermetallic compounds which adopt the A15 crystal structure, and whose members include all…

Nonlinear magnonics studies the nonlinear interaction between magnons and other physical platforms (phonon, photon, qubit, spin texture) to generate novel magnon states for information processing. In this tutorial, we first introduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Shasha Zheng , Zhenyu Wang , Yipu Wang , Fengxiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Peng Yan , H. Y. Yuan

Photon antibunching is a quantum phenomenon typically observed in strongly nonlinear systems where photon blockade suppresses the probability for detecting two photons at the same time. Antibunching has also been reported with Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Marc-Antoine Lemonde , Nicolas Didier , Aashish A. Clerk

Quantifying the entanglement between two continuous bosonic modes, such as magnons and photons, is not trivial. The logarithmic negativity, calculated through the quantum Langevin equations is subjected to thermal noise. However this method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 M. Wanic , C. Jasiukiewicz , Z. Toklikishvili , V. Jandieri , M. Trybus , E. Jartych , S. K. Mishra , L. Chotorlishvili

For any experiment with two entangled photons, some joint measurement outcomes can have zero probability for a precise choice of basis. These perfect anti-correlations would seem to be a purely quantum phenomenon. It is therefore surprising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Ken Wharton , Emily Adlam

Collective magnetic excitation modes, magnons, can be coherently coupled to microwave photons in the single excitation limit. This allows for access to quantum properties of magnons and opens up a range of applications in quantum…

Employing the concept of two-mode squeezed states from quantum optics, we demonstrate a revealing physical picture for the antiferromagnetic ground state and excitations. Superimposed on a N{\'e}el ordered configuration, a spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Akashdeep Kamra , Even Thingstad , Gianluca Rastelli , Rembert A. Duine , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig , Asle Sudbø

We analyze the interaction of a nanomagnet with a single photonic mode of a microcavity in a fully quantum-mechanical treatment and find that exceptionally large quantum-coherent magnet-photon coupling can be achieved. Coupling terms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Öney O. Soykal , M. E. Flatté

We consider the coupling of the magnons in both quantum ferromagnets and antiferromagnets to the longitudinal order-parameter fluctuations, and the resulting nonanalytic behavior of the longitudinal susceptibility. In classical magnets it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-12 S. Bharadwaj , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

Antiferromagnets have been shown to harbor strong magnon squeezing in equilibrium, making them a potential resource for quantum correlations and entanglement. Recent experiments have also found them to host coherently coupled magnonic…

Reaching strong light-matter coupling in solid-state systems has been long pursued for the implementation of scalable quantum devices. Here, we put forward the concept of a platform capable of achieving strong coupling between magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 V. A. S. V. Bittencourt , I. Liberal , S. Viola Kusminskiy