Raffi Budakian

Raffi Budakian
Professor
Location: RAC 2111
Phone: 519-888-4567 x31058

Biography

Professor Budakian's work in the past decade has focused on developing the experimental tools for ultra sensitive detection of electron and nuclear spins. He explores the application of these tools to address fundamental questions ranging from biology to quantum information.

Research Interests

  • Coupling spins and nanomechanical oscillators

  • Nanometer scale magnetic resonance imaging

  • Exploring nanometer scale quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems

  • Condensed Matter

  • Nanomaterials

Scholarly Research

Education

  • 2000, PhD Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

  • 1995, MS Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

  • 1994, BS Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, summa cum laude

Awards

  • 2013, John Bardeen Faculty Scholar

  • 2010, University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study Fellow

  • 2005, World Technology Award, World Technology Network, presented for Single Spin Detection by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Professional Associations

  • CIFAR, Senior fellow - Quantum Materials, and Quantum Information Science

Affiliations and Volunteer Work

  • Faculty, Institute for Quantum Computing

  • Faculty, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

  • Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Teaching*

  • PHYS 111 - Physics 1
    • Taught in 2021
  • PHYS 233 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
    • Taught in 2025
  • PHYS 234 - Quantum Physics 1
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023
  • PHYS 342 - Electricity and Magnetism 2
    • Taught in 2021, 2022
  • PHYS 442 - Electricity and Magnetism 3
    • Taught in 2020

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • J.M. Nichol, E.R. Hemesath, L.J. Lauhon, R. Budakian, Nanomechanical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance using a silicon nanowire oscillator. Phys. Rev. B., 054414-1-6 (2012).

  • M. Kim, X.M. Chen, X. Wang, C.S. Nelson, R. Budakian, P. Abbamonte, S.L. Cooper, Pressure and field tuning the magnetostructural phases of Mn3O4: Raman scattering and x-ray diffraction studies. Phys. Rev. B., 174424-1-11 (2011).

  • J. Jang, D.G. Ferguson, V. Vakaryuk, R. Budakian, S.B. Chung, P.M. Goldbart,and Y. Maeno, Observation of half-height magnetization steps in Sr2RuO4. Science 331, 186-188 (2011).

  • R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, B. W. Chui, and D. Rugar. Creating order from random fluctuations in small spin ensembles. Science 307, 408-411 (2005).

  • R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, and D. Rugar. Suppression of spin diffusion near a micron-size ​ferromagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 037205-1-4 (2004).

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