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Senior Lecturer, Principal Investigator, University of Sydney 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
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.

Created at: July 12, 2026, 1:03 a.m. Updated at: July 12, 2026, 1:03 a.m. Metadata: Fresh 2026-07-11. Primary lab: Quantum Control Laboratory, School of Physics. Early-career PI with an independent trapped-ion sensing programme.