Experimental sensing quantum atmosphere of a single spin

Understanding symmetry-breaking states of materials is a major challenge in the modern physical sciences. Quantum atmosphere proposed recently sheds light on the hidden world of these symmetry broken patterns. But the requirements for exquisite sensitivity to the small shift and tremendous spatial r...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Zhu, Kehang, Yang, Zhiping, Qing-Dong, Jiang, Chai, Zihua, Li, Zhijie, Zhao, Zhiyuan, Wang, Ya, Shi, Fazhan, Chang-Kui Duan, Xing Rong, Du, Jiangfeng
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 13.01.2020
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Broken symmetry
Nuclear spin
Physical sciences
Spatial resolution
Symmetry
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Summary:Understanding symmetry-breaking states of materials is a major challenge in the modern physical sciences. Quantum atmosphere proposed recently sheds light on the hidden world of these symmetry broken patterns. But the requirements for exquisite sensitivity to the small shift and tremendous spatial resolution to local information pose huge obstacles to its experimental manifestation. In our experiment, we prepare time-reversal-symmetry conserved and broken quantum atmosphere of a single nuclear spin and successfully observe their symmetry properties. Our work proves in principle that finding symmetry patterns from quantum atmosphere is conceptually viable. It also opens up entirely new possibilities in the potential application of quantum sensing in material diagnosis.
ISSN:2331-8422