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Single nuclear spin detection and control in a van der Waals material
Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li +8
Optically active spin defects in solids are leading candidates for quantum sensing and quantum networking. Recently, single spin defects were discovered in hexagonal boron nitride…
Towards real-world applications of levitated optomechanics
Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju +1
Levitated optomechanics, a rapidly expanding field that employs light to monitor and manipulate the mechanical motion of levitated objects, is increasingly relevant across physics,…
Purcell-enhanced optical refrigeration
Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen, Stefan Püschel +3
Optical refrigeration of solids with anti-Stokes fluorescence has been widely explored as a vibration-free cryogenic cooling technology. A minimum temperature of 87 K has been demo…
Observation of non-contact Casimir friction
Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen +3
Quantum mechanics predicts the occurrence of random electromagnetic field fluctuations, or virtual photons, in vacuum. The exchange of virtual photons between two bodies in relativ…
Nanotube spin defects for omnidirectional magnetic field sensing
Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Saakshi Dikshit +5
Optically addressable spin defects in three-dimensional (3D) crystals and two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials are revolutionizing nanoscale quantum sensing. Spin def…
Quantum control and Berry phase of electron spins in rotating levitated diamonds in high vacuum
Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju +4
Levitated diamond particles in high vacuum with internal spin qubits have been proposed for exploring macroscopic quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, and precision measurements. Th…
Quantum sensing of paramagnetic spins in liquids with spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride
Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju +4
Paramagnetic ions and radicals play essential roles in biology and medicine, but detecting these species requires a highly sensitive and ambient-operable sensor. Optically addressa…
Near-field GHz rotation and sensing with an optically levitated nanodumbbell
Peng Ju, Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen +5
A levitated non-spherical nanoparticle in a vacuum is ideal for studying quantum rotations and is an extremely sensitive torque and force detector. It has been proposed to probe fu…
Nuclear spin polarization and control in a van der Waals material
Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li +11
Van der Waals layered materials are a focus of materials research as they support strong quantum effects and can easily form heterostructures. Electron spins in van der Waals mater…
Switching and amplifying three-body Casimir effects
Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao +3
The dynamics of three interacting objects has been investigated extensively in Newtonian gravitational physics (often termed the three-body problem), and is important for many quan…
On-chip optical levitation with a metalens in vacuum
Kunhong Shen, Yao Duan, Peng Ju +6
Optical levitation of dielectric particles in vacuum is a powerful technique for precision measurements, testing fundamental physics, and quantum information science. Conventional…
High-contrast plasmonic-enhanced shallow spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum sensing
Xingyu Gao, Boyang Jiang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca +9
The recently discovered spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a layered van der Waals material, have great potential in quantum sensing. However, the photoluminescence and…