SPICE Workshop on Quantum Spinoptics, June 18th - June 20th 2024
Amir Yacoby
Major scientific discoveries are often enabled by new measurement capabilities that provide novel perspectives into complex physical problems. Recent advances and discoveries made on quantum materials have challenged experimentalists to come up with new ways to probe their intrinsic properties. In this lecture series I will review some of the recent work we have done to develop a variety of quantum sensing techniques and provide many examples of how they can assist us in exploring quantum matter. The first lecture will consist of a broad introduction to quantum sensing focusing mostly on NV center magnetometry and its use to explore Josephson junctions and electron hydrodynamics. The second lecture will focus on the spin degree of freedom of quantum matter. We will explore the imaging of Skyrmions, the measurement of spin chemical potential in magnets and magnon hydrodynamics. The third lecture will explore the use of magnons as probes of quantum matter and the coupling of magnons to other degrees of freedom such as free electrons and superconductivity.