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Using the two-level approximation of the energy barrier, we perform extensive kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to probe the relaxation characteristics in a two-dimensional ($L^{}_x\times L^{}_y$) array of magnetic nanoparticle as a function…
We investigated the influence of doping antiferromagnetic MnN in polycrystalline MnN/CoFe exchange bias systems, showing high exchange bias of up to 1800 Oe at room temperature. The thermal stability of those systems is limited by nitrogen…
Complex frequency excitations, oscillating signals whose amplitude decreases exponentially in time, have recently been demonstrated to significantly increase the effective quality factor of mechanical resonators. In this work, we…
A specific heat measuring instrument, with the capacity for the application of magnetic fields up to 9 Tesla, resorting to microcalorimetry chips from the company Xensor Integration, has been successfully assembled and its functioning…
Versatile nanoscale sensors that are susceptible to changes in a variety of physical quantities often exhibit limited selectivity. This paper reports a novel scheme based on microwave-dressed spin states for optically probed nanoscale…
The dynamics of the low energy excitations in a ferromagnet is studied in case a temperature gradient is coupled to the local magnetization. Due to the different time scales of changing temperature and magnetization it is argued that only…
We present an optimized scheme for nanoscale measurements of temperature in a complex environment using the nitrogen-vacancy center in nanodiamonds. To this end we combine a Ramsey measurement utilized to temperature determination with…
We report an optical inelastic-wave-mixing-enhanced atomic magnetometry technique that results in nT-level magnetic field detection at temperatures compatible with the human body without magnetic shielding, zero-field compensation, or…
We present a procedure to study the switching and the stability of an array of magnetic nanoparticles in the dynamical regime. The procedure leads to the criterion of multi-switching stability to be satisfied in order to have stable…
Precise control of the resonant frequency of a spin qubit is of fundamental importance to quantum sensing protocols. We demonstrate a control technique on a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond where the applied magnetic field is…
Advances in instrumentation and tracer materials are still required to enable sensitive and accurate 3D temperature monitoring by magnetic particle imaging. We have developed a magnetic particle imaging instrument to observe temperature…
We investigate the magnetization dynamics of a conducting magnetic nanoparticle weakly coupled to source and drain electrodes, under the assumption that all relaxation comes from exchange of electrons with the electrodes. The magnetization…
We experimentally squeeze the thermal motional state of an optically levitated nanosphere, by fast switching between two trapping frequencies. The measured phase space distribution of our particle shows the typical shape of a squeezed…
A sensor for thermal and thermodynamic measurements of small magnetic systems have been designed and built. It is based on a 5μm-thick suspended polymer membrane, which has a very low heat capacity (≈ 10-6 J/K at nitrogen…
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are attractive as quantum sensors owing to their remarkable optical and spin properties under ambient conditions. Here we experimentally demonstrated a hybrid fiber-based thermometer coupled with…
Room temperature ferromagnetism has been one of the most sought after topics in today's emerging field of spintronics. It is strongly believed that defect- and inhomogeneity- free sample growth should be the optimal route for achieving…
A novel approach for measuring the electrical resistivity of non-magnetic materials using magnetic force microscopy (MFM) is discussed. In this method, MFM detects magnetic fields generated by eddy currents induced by the oscillation of a…
The nano-particle systems under theoretically and experimentally investigation because of the potential applications in the nano-technology such as drug delivery, ferrofluids mechanics, magnetic data storage, sensors, magnetic resonance…