{"id":169115,"date":"2023-08-06T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/sensing-and-controlling-microscopic-spin-density-in-materials"},"modified":"2023-08-06T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T05:22:24","slug":"sensing-and-controlling-microscopic-spin-density-in-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/sensing-and-controlling-microscopic-spin-density-in-materials","title":{"rendered":"Sensing and controlling microscopic spin density in materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sensing-and-controlling-microscopic-spin-density-in-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic devices typically use the charge of electrons, but spin \u2014 their other degree of freedom \u2014 is starting to be exploited. Spin defects make crystalline materials highly useful for quantum-based devices such as ultrasensitive quantum sensors, quantum memory devices, or systems for simulating the physics of quantum effects. Varying the spin density in semiconductors can lead to new properties in a material \u2014 something researchers have long wanted to explore \u2014 but this density is usually fleeting and elusive, thus hard to measure and control locally.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a way to tune the spin density in diamond, changing it by a factor of two, by\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT researchers found a way to tune the spin density in diamond by applying an external laser or microwave beam. The finding could open new possibilities for advanced quantum devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic devices typically use the charge of electrons, but spin \u2014 their other degree of freedom \u2014 is starting to be exploited. Spin defects make crystalline materials highly useful for quantum-based devices such as ultrasensitive quantum sensors, quantum memory devices, or systems for simulating the physics of quantum effects. Varying the spin density in semiconductors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}