Through a unique combination of ultra-sensitive spin detection and high-fidelity quantum control, the lab brings the powerful capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy to the nanometer scale.
It aims to provide new tools for probing nanoscale spin systems with angstrom resolution, with exciting prospects for studying nanoscale biological samples, such as proteins and virus particles, as well as nanoscale condensed matter systems.
The lab's experiments cover sub-angstrom-precision imaging methodologies such as NMR diffraction, sensitivity enhancement using nanoscale dynamic nuclear polarization and probing quantum many-body phenomena such as dipolar spin transport at condensed matter's fundamental length scale.
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