Welcome to the Quantum Sensing Lab
Our laboratory is located in the Department of Physics of the University of Basel in Switzerland. Our research is centered around the emerging field of "Quantum sensing", where the use of individual, well-controlled quantum systems as high-performance sensing devices is being explored. We concentrate on implementing various types of such sensors and on applying them to outstanding scientific tasks in mesoscopic physics, nano-science and technology. At the moment, our quantum system of choice for these purposes is the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) color center in diamond, whose exceptional quantum-coherent properties allow for high-performance sensing applications (such as single-electron spin detection) even at room temperature.
News from the Lab
New PhD Student & PostDoc
We welcome our new PhD Student Jodok Happacher and PostDoc Marcel.li Grimau Puigibert. Both will reinforce the mK-magnetometry team.
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Riedel
Daniel Riedel successfully defended his thesis and was received the Quantum Future Award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (BMBF) and the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST)!
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Appel and Dr. Arne Barfuss
Patrick Appel and Arne Barfuss successfully defended their PhD thesis. Great job!!!
Paper on quantum sensing and imaging of spin-cycloid in multiferroic BFO published in Nature
In collaboration with the group of V. Jacques and the CNRS Thales we were able to demonstrate real-space visualization of non-collinear antiferromagnetic order in a magnetic thin film at room temperature and manipulate the cycloid…
Daniel's paper published in Physical Review X
Daniels's paper "Deterministic enhancement of coherent photon generation from a nitrogen-vacancy center in ultrapure diamond" was published in PRX. We couple NV centers to a tunable microcavity and significantly enhance their photonic…
Arne Barfuss receives Swiss Nanotechnology Award
Arne Barfuss has won the Swiss Nanotechnology Award sponsored by Rolic Technologies Ltd. for the outstanding publication "Strong mechanical driving of a single electron spin". For the first time, the Swiss MNT Network presents this award to…
Jean and Arne's paper published
Jean and Arne's paper "Hybrid continuous dynamical decoupling: a photon-phonon doubly dressed spin" studies parametric interaction between a single Nitrogen-Vacancy electronic spin and a diamond mechanical resonator. We present a novel…
Goodbye to Simon
We say goodbye to our Master student Simon Philipp, who will start a PhD with the group of Martino Poggio at the University of Basel. There Simon will work on cantilever magnetometry.
New PhD Student
Welcome to Natascha Hedrich. Natascha will work on the room temperature NV magnetometry project.