About the project
Magnetometers are crucial in aerospace, geological mapping, and drone technology. Our innovative project leverages distributed quantum sensing, implemented on an array of optomechanical metasurfaces, to create room-temperature, chip-scale remote magnetometers with high signal-to-noise sensing capabilities in complex environments.
Magnetometers are pivotal in aerospace, geological mapping, and drone technologies, supporting functions like altitude measurement and magnetic geological surveys. They are equally essential in space exploration, helping to study Earth's magnetic properties, other planetary bodies, and the interplanetary magnetic field. A major challenge across these applications is achieving compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient sensor designs while optimizing signal-to-noise ratios and refresh rates.
To tackle these limitations, we propose an advanced solution leveraging optomechanical interactions with entangled photons on a single chip. This approach employs distributed quantum sensing on an array of optomechanical metasurfaces, enabling room-temperature, chip-scale magnetometer arrays with exceptional signal-to-noise performance in complex environments. It supports both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field mapping.
This project is a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Alberta in Canada which hosts external placement.
What you will do:
- design, develop, and prototype nanomechanical sensors that interact with entangled photons;
- detect force and displacement using ultrasensitive nanomechanical sensors and quantum sensor network;
- present your findings in leading journals and at international conferences.
