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11-19: Mingxing’s baby is born! Congratulations to the new dad!
10-19: Prof. Rodolfo Acosta from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba joins us for a two-week stay
10-19: Mishkatul Bhattacharya from the Rochester Institute of Technology tells us about how to engineer a phonon laser
Optical Tweezer Phonon Laser
Abstract: We are in the middle of a revolution in phononics, where it seems useful and possible to control phonons as we have photons in the last few decades. In this talk
I will describe our theoretical proposal and its experimental demonstration regarding
a phonon laser made of the center-of-mass oscillations of a nanoparticle trapped in an
optical tweezer. I will report on threshold behavior, coherence, subthermal number
squeezing, time dynamics, phase space characterization, injection locking, Q switching
and the role of stimulated emission in our single mode phonon laser. Based on this discussion
I will conclude that our device provides a pathway for engineering a coherent source of
phonons on the mesoscale that can be applied to both fundamental problems in quantum
mechanics as well as tasks of precision metrology.
09-19: Sakib presents his poster at the ORCA meeting.
08-19: Jake’s and Daniela’s paper accepted in PNAS!
Optical spin pumping of color centers promises to revolutionize the practice of nuclear magnetic resonance via efficient dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) protocols. Significant progress has been attained with systems such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, but extreme spectral broadening and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation from co-existing paramagnetic defects are hurdles still difficult to circumvent. The technique we present in this manuscript addresses both issues through the implementation of magnetic-field-sweep-induced NV cross-relaxation with ancilla point defects, here acting as proxies to mediate the transfer of polarization to the nuclear spin ensemble. The governing spin dynamics is robust to field misalignment and ideally suited for shallow NVs, indirectly coupled to outside nuclei through paramagnetic defects at the diamond surface.
06-19: We welcome Keishlyann Báez Cruz, our IDEALS-REU student guest this summer.
Keishlyann joins us this summer from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), where she is majoring in Chemical Engineering with a certificate in Materials Science and Engineering. Her research experience includes prior work with Al alloys, and nanoporous metals under the supervision of Prof. O. Marcelo Suarez. Last year, she also joined the Material Advantage UPRM Chapter (the only materials sciences association in the Caribbean) where she conducted a number of activities aimed at increasing the enrollment of high-school students in STEM careers. We are very happy to have you here!
04-19: Joerg Wrachtrup delivers the CCNY Cummins Lecture
04-19: Damon and Katie get married! See some photos and learn all details
04-19: On April 11th, visitors arrive for CCNY’s Science Day.
