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20152026
most citedOptical cooling of magnons

127 citations · 640 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

quant-ph2026

High-purity entanglement mediated by magnons despite weak coupling

Sanchar Sharma

Entangling distant spins via a shared magnonic bus typically faces a tradeoff: stronger spin-magnon coupling increases the entanglement fidelity, but also the spin decay rate. We p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Optical signatures of quantum skyrmions

Sanchar Sharma, Christina Psaroudaki

Magnets have recently emerged as promising candidates for quantum computing, particularly using topologically-protected nanoscale spin textures. While the quantum dynamics of such…

quant-ph2025

Bosonic quantum error correction with microwave cavities for quantum repeaters

S. Siddardha Chelluri, Sanchar Sharma, Frank Schmidt +2

Long-distance quantum communication necessitates the use of quantum repeaters, which typically include highly coherent quantum memories. We provide a theoretical analysis of the se…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Cavity-Enhanced Optical Manipulation of Antiferromagnetic Magnon-Pairs

Tahereh Sadat Parvini, Anna-Luisa E. Romling, Sanchar Sharma +1

The optical manipulation of magnon states in antiferromagnets (AFMs) holds significant potential for advancing AFM-based computing devices. In particular, two-magnon Raman scatteri…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Magnon-mediated quantum gates for superconducting qubits

Martijn Dols, Sanchar Sharma, Lenos Bechara +3

We propose a hybrid quantum system consisting of a magnetic particle inductively coupled to two superconducting transmon qubits, where qubit-qubit interactions are mediated via mag…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Quantum tomography of magnons using Brillouin light scattering

Sanchar Sharma, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt

Quantum magnonics, an emerging field focusing on the study of magnons for quantum applications, requires precise measurement methods capable of resolving single magnons. Existing t…

physics.optics2023

A Finite-Difference Time-Domain approach for dispersive magnetic media

Jasmin Graf, Joshua Baxter, Sanchar Sharma +2

We extend the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method to treat dispersive magnetic media by incorporating magneto-optical effects through a frequency-dependent permittivity tensor. Fo…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Quantum sensing of electric field distributions of liquid electrolytes with NV-centers in nanodiamonds

M. Hollendonner, S. Sharma, D. B. R. Dasari +3

To use batteries as large-scale energy storage systems it is necessary to measure and understand their degradation \textit{in-situ} and \textit{in-operando}. As a battery's degrada…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 16 cited

Protocol for generating an arbitrary quantum state of the magnetization in cavity magnonics

Sanchar Sharma, Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

We propose and numerically evaluate a protocol to generate an arbitrary quantum state of the magnetization in a magnet. The protocol involves repeatedly exciting a frequency-tunabl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 11 cited

Optical signatures of the coupled spin-mechanics of a levitated magnetic microparticle

Vanessa Wachter, Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt, Shangran Xie +5

We propose a platform that combines the fields of cavity optomagnonics and levitated optomechanics in order to control and probe the coupled spin-mechanics of magnetic dielectric p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 28 cited

Design of an optomagnonic crystal: towards optimal magnon-photon mode matching at the microscale

Jasmin Graf, Sanchar Sharma, Hans Huebl +1

We put forward the concept of an optomagnonic crystal: a periodically patterned structure at the microscale based on a magnetic dielectric, which can co-localize magnon and photon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 83 cited

Spin cat states in a ferromagnetic insulator

Sanchar Sharma, Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt, Alexy D. Karenowska +1

Generating non-classical states in macroscopic systems is a long standing challenge. A promising platform in the context of this quest are novel hybrid systems based on magnetic di…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 14 cited

Coherent pumping of high momentum magnons by light

Fran Šimić, Sanchar Sharma, Yaroslav M. Blanter +1

We propose to excite a large number of coherent magnons with high momentum in optical cavities. This is achieved by two counterpropagating optical modes that are detuned by the fre…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 39 cited

Chiral coupling of magnons in waveguides

Tao Yu, Xiang Zhang, Sanchar Sharma +2

We theoretically investigate the collective excitation of multiple (sub)millimeter-sized ferromagnets mediated by waveguide photons. By the position of the magnets in the waveguide…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 52 cited

Magnon Accumulation in Chirally Coupled Magnets

Tao Yu, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Sanchar Sharma +2

We report strong chiral coupling between magnons and photons in microwave waveguides that contain chains of small magnets on special lines. Large magnon accumulations at one edge o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 52 cited

Optimal mode matching in cavity optomagnonics

Sanchar Sharma, Babak Zare Rameshti, Yaroslav M. Blanter +1

Inelastic scattering of photons is a promising technique to manipulate magnons but it suffers from weak intrinsic coupling. We theoretically discuss an idea to increase optomagnoni…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 27 cited

Surface dynamics of rough magnetic films

Tao Yu, Sanchar Sharma, Yaroslav M. Blanter +1

The chirality of Damon-Eshbach (DE) magnons affects the transport of energy and angular momentum at the surface of magnetic films and spheres. We calculate the surface-disorder-lim…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 127 cited

Optical cooling of magnons

Sanchar Sharma, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Inelastic scattering of light by spin waves generates an energy flow between the light and magnetization fields, a process that can be enhanced and controlled by concentrating the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 119 cited

Light scattering by magnons in whispering gallery mode cavities

Sanchar Sharma, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Brillouin light scattering is an established technique to study magnons, the elementary excitations of a magnet. Its efficiency can be enhanced by cavities that concentrate the lig…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 30 cited

Proposal for a Domain Wall Nano-Oscillator driven by Non-uniform Spin Currents

Sanchar Sharma, Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Ashwin Tulapurkar

We propose a new mechanism and a related device concept for a robust, magnetic field tunable radio-frequency (rf) oscillator using the self oscillation of a magnetic domain wall su…