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Electric control of spins has been a longstanding goal in the field of solid state physics due to the potential for increased efficiency in information processing. This efficiency can be optimized by transferring spintronics to the atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Piotr Kot , Maneesha Ismail , Robert Drost , Janis Siebrecht , Haonan Huang , Christian R. Ast

Localized spin states in conventional superconductors at low temperatures are expected to have long decoherence time due to the strong suppression of spin relaxation channels. We propose a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiment…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurij Smakov , Ivar Martin , Alexander V. Balatsky

Atomic-resolution cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy (cryo-STEM) has provided a path to probing the microscopic nature of select low-temperature phases in quantum materials. Expanding cryo-STEM techniques to broadly tunable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Berit H. Goodge , Elisabeth Bianco , Henny W. Zandbergen Lena F. Kourkoutis

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have excellent magnetic-temperature characteristic. However, current temperature measurement based on MNPs is interfered by concentration. Utilizing the electron spin resonance (ESR), we propose a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Shuai Wang , Jing Zhong , Wenzhong Liu

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) is a widely common method in the field of quantum sensing. Specifically with the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond, used for sensing magnetic and electric fields, strain and temperature. However, ESR…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Galya Haim , Chris Mullarkey , John Howell , Nir Bar-Gill

A cryo scanning transmission X-ray microscope, the cryo-STXM, has been designed and commissioned at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron. The instrument is designed to operate from 100 - 4000 eV (lambda = 12.4 - 0.31 nm). Users can insert…

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) describes a suite of techniques for characterising electronic systems, with applications in physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology. However, the requirement for large electron spin ensembles in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 L. T. Hall , P. Kehayias , D. A. Simpson , A. Jarmola , A. Stacey , D. Budker , L. C. L. Hollenberg

We report pulsed electron-spin resonance (ESR) measurements on an ensemble of Bismuth donors in Silicon cooled at 10mK in a dilution refrigerator. Using a Josephson parametric microwave amplifier combined with high-quality factor…

We study a model for the observed phenomenon of electron spin resonance (ESR) at the Zeeman frequency as seen by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) via its current noise. The model for this ESR-STM phenomenon allows the STM current to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Anatoly Golub , Baruch Horovitz

We present here the straightforward implementation of pump-probe methods into existing scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) systems. Our method uses the waveform-sequencing abilities of a standard arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-03 Fabian Donat Natterer

We report the development of the frequency-modulation (FM) method for measuring electron spin resonance (ESR) absorption in the 210-420 GHz frequency range. We demonstrate that using a high-frequency ESR spectrometer without resonating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-14 Balint Nafradi , Richard Gaal , Titusz Feher , Laszlo Forro

Resistive RAM (RRAM) devices are candidates for neuromorphic computing devices in which the functionality lies in the formation and reversible rupture and gap-closing of conducting filaments in insulating layers. To explore the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Nele Harnack , Sophie Rodehutskors , Bernd Gotsmann

Microwave superconducting resonators are extensively studied in fields such as quantum computing and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. However, the integration of superconducting resonators with feedback mechanisms to create…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 R. Russo , A. Chatel , N. Brusadin , R. Yu , R. Farsi , H. Furci , J. Brugger , G. Boero

On-chip Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) of magnetic molecules requires the ability to precisely position nanosized samples in antinodes of the electro-magnetic field for maximal magnetic interaction. A method is developed to entrap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-28 N. Groll , S. Bertaina , M. Pati , N. S. Dalal , I. Chiorescu

Tunneling spectroscopy played a central role in the experimental verification of the microscopic theory of superconductivity in the classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply the same approach to high-temperature superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 Oystein Fischer , Martin Kugler , Ivan Maggio-Aprile , Christophe Berthod , Christoph Renner

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has revolutionized our atomic scale understanding of surfaces and accelerated progress in nanotechnology. This technique, however, is restricted to metal or semiconducting samples, as it requires a tiny…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-16 M. J. Rost

We introduce a method for a combined calculation of charge and vector spin transport of elastically tunneling electrons in magnetic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The method is based on the three-dimensional Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Krisztián Palotás , Gábor Mándi , László Szunyogh

We used electron spin resonance (ESR) combined with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to measure hydrogenated Ti (spin-1/2) atoms at low-symmetry binding sites on MgO in vector magnetic fields. We found strongly anisotropic g-values in…

We describe a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that operates at magnetic fields up to 22 Tesla and temperatures down to 80 mK. We discuss the design of the STM head, with an improved coarse approach, the vibration isolation system, and…

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of quantum materials that exhibit spin momentum locking (SML) of massless Dirac fermions in the surface states. Usually optical methods, such as angle and spin-resolved photoemission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 André Dankert , Johannes Geurs , M. Venkata Kamalakar , Saroj P. Dash