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Quantum Sensing
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