Project description
Graphene as a quantum sensor
Quantum sensors can offer precision in measuring magnetic fields, time, gravity, and so on. However, bringing them into everyday use requires overcoming challenges such as environmental noise and technological integration. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the GaToR project aims to explore graphene, including twisted bilayer structures, as a platform for robust quantum sensing. By combining high-harmonic spectroscopy with quantum metrology, the project will map how graphene’s electronic structure responds to external perturbations and identify the features that make it an effective sensor. This will allow a direct comparison with existing quantum sensors and will propose experimental settings to detect graphene’s unique phases of matter. GaToR could pave the way for practical, solid-state quantum sensors in real-world applications.
Objective
Quantum sensors are the most direct application of current quantum technologies. They have shown improvement in magnetic sensors, atomic clocks, gravimeters, accelerometers, geolocalization, gas detection, imaging resolution and biomedical sensors. Nevertheless, a concrete incorporation of quantum sensors to the every day life requires to overcome fundamental challenges, such as robustness to the environmental noise and integration to the current technology.
Here I show how to probe graphene for quantum sensing magnetic fields. Putting together the tools of high-harmonic spectroscopy with quantum metrology, I propose a framework capable of quantifying solid-state systems for sensing applications.
Solid state materials have unique quantum features, due to their extreme sensibility to the boundary conditions. Other effects, such as superconductivity, appear in strongly correlated materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene. Analysing the high-harmonic spectroscopy in twisted bilayer graphene allows to propose experimental settings to detect its phases of matter, electronic localisation and band structure.
In this proposal I describe why graphene has the potential of working as a robust magnetic field quantum sensor. Currently, the techniques of quantum metrology and parameter estimation, allow to quantify for the first time the performance of materials in presence of of incident external fields. Here I propose to use this framework, to determine the performance of single layer and twisted bilayer graphene in presence of magnetic fields, and compare it to the available quantum sensors in the market. In this process, it is possible to pin down the key features in graphene for measuring these fields.
Combining the results of fundaments of quantum metrology with high-harmonic spectroscopy gives a complete analysis of the performance of graphene together with a experimental proposal to detect its key features, probing twisted bilayer graphene as a robust quantum sensor.
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- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials two-dimensional nanostructures graphene
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics superconductivity
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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70174 Stuttgart
Germany
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