Quantum Sensing

Place
ENS-PSL
Fall semester
Level Master 2 2 ECTS - English
Master 2
Contact

Mame Diallo

Gestionnaire du Master Quantum Engineering

mame.diallo@phys.ens.fr


Secrétariat de l’enseignement 

enseignement@phys.ens.fr


 

Alexey Tiranov

Syllabus

1. Platforms

a) Solid-state spin ensembles

  • (NMR ensembles, NV center ensembles ...)

b) Single solid-state spins

  • Defects in crystalline materials (diamond, silica, silicon carbide ...) 
  • Single organic molecules, single quantum dots

c) Superconducting circuits:

  •  SQUIDs, superconducting qubits

d) Quantum optomechanics

  • optomechanics, electromechanics and hybrid circuits

2. Quantum sensing 

a) Protocols

  • Quantum sensor Hamiltonian, Examples of Ramsey and Rabi sequences 

b) Sensitivity

  • Quantum noise, decoherence, single shot readout, averaged readout
  • Slope and variance detection, Allan variance 

c) Sensing ac Signals

  • Multipulse sequences, dynamical decoupling 

d) Noise Spectroscopy

  • Decoherence, dynamical decoupling and filter functions, relaxometry (T1, T2, T2*)

3. Applications:
a) Biomedical applications (brain imaging, single-cell spectroscopy), quantum optimal control and machine learning

Prerequisites

M1

Evaluation

Written