Research Areas - (1) Trapped-Ion Motional Quantum Sensing of Electric Fields

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Department(s)/lab(s): School of Physics | Quantum Control Laboratory @ USyd
Summary:

Wolf works on trapped-ion quantum sensing, using the motional degrees of freedom of single ions and small crystals as transducers for weak electric fields and forces, together with non-classical motional states (squeezed and Fock states) to enhance the achievable sensitivity. The broader agenda is to use trapped ions as a testbed for fundamental measurement limits — quantum-enhanced amplification of small displacements, quantum non-demolition readout of motion — with an eye to applications in electric-field metrology and searches for new physics. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — trapped-ion motional sensing is the cleanest available platform for demonstrating the entanglement-enhanced scaling that NV ensembles at pT/sqrt(Hz) approach only in the shot-noise-limited regime. Early-career independent PI within the Quantum Control Laboratory; smaller group, higher autonomy.