About the project
Quantum systems evolve in time. The pathway which a quantum system follows may be controlled by imposing selection rules on the dynamical evolution. This project involves a combination of theory, numerical simulation, and experiments involving local nuclear magnetic resonance equipment and through international collaborations.
The aim of this project is to control the pathway which a quantum system follows by imposing selection rules on the dynamical evolution. This may be done by imposing control fields which obey certain symmetry relationships in time and space. This principle was originally developed for solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where technologies based on this principle are widely used for molecular structure determination in, for example, structural biology.
In this project we wish to generalise and extend the symmetry-based control principle to other dynamical quantum systems, including other forms of NMR, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and nanoscale magnetometry using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond.
This project will give you experience with a wide variety of quantum systems of technological importance, including techniques on the forefront of quantum technology development, such as nanoscale quantum sensing. The project involves a combination of theory, numerical simulation, and experiments involving local NMR equipment and through international collaborations.
