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Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System

Billington, David; Riordan, Edward; Salman, Majdi; Margineda, Daniel; Gill, George J. W.; Cottrell, Stephen P.; McKenzie, Iain; Lancaster, Tom; Graf, Michael J.; Giblin, Sean R.

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Authors

David Billington

Edward Riordan

Majdi Salman

Daniel Margineda

George J. W. Gill

Stephen P. Cottrell

Iain McKenzie

Michael J. Graf

Sean R. Giblin



Abstract

Entangled spin states are created by implanting muons into single-crystal LiY0.95Ho0.05F4 to form a cluster of correlated, dipole-coupled local magnetic moments. The resulting states have well-defined energy levels allowing experimental manipulation of the state populations by electromagnetic excitation. Experimental control of the evolution of the muon spin polarization is demonstrated through application of continuous, radio-frequency electromagnetic excitation fields. A semiclassical model of quantum, dipole-coupled spins interacting with a classical, oscillating magnetic field accounts for the muon spin evolution. On application of the excitation field, this model shows how changes in the state populations lead to the experimentally observed effects, thus enabling a spectroscopic probe of entangled spin states with muons.

Citation

Billington, D., Riordan, E., Salman, M., Margineda, D., Gill, G. J., Cottrell, S. P., …Giblin, S. R. (2022). Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System. Physical Review Letters, 129(7), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.129.077201

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 12, 2022
Online Publication Date Aug 9, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Aug 9, 2022
Publicly Available Date Sep 29, 2022
Journal Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN 0031-9007
Electronic ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 129
Issue 7
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.129.077201
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1197475

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