Broadband electron spin resonance spectroscopy with a superconducting resonator, Part 2 : Experiments

ORAL

Abstract

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a useful characterization tool for quantum materials that is traditionally limited in terms of sensitivity, probing frequency, and volume. Here, we present an alternative: a longitudinal spin-cavity coupling mechanism based on the effects of the spin polarization on high-kinetic-inductance superconducting resonators. This interaction allows for broadband measurements to probe spin transitions.

We report experimental evidence of this longitudinal spin-resonator interaction where the resonator is affected by the spins polarization for detunings between the spin and the resonator larger than 1 GHz, where the contribution of the dispersive interaction is vanishing. In the specific implementation, numerical simulations show that the main contributions come from near-surface spins. This novel coupling can lead to new characterization tools and methods of quantum defects, complex quantum materials and many other paramagnetic systems.

*This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund and the Institut Transdisciplinaire de Recherche en Information Quantique.

Presenters

  • Gregory Brookes

    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke

Authors

  • Gregory Brookes

    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
  • Dany Lachance-Quirion

    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
    • Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
    • The University of Tokyo
  • David Roy-Guay

    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
  • Raphaël Lafond-Mercier

    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
  • Jerome Bourassa

    • Département des Sciences de la Nature, Cégep de Granby
  • Michel Pioro-Ladriere

    • Institut quantique and Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
    • Institut quantique and Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
    • Institut quantique, Universite de Sherbrooke & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
    • Universite de Sherbrooke
    • Institut quantique, Université de Sherbrooke and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research