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FM: Fall Meeting
FM 30: Quantum Sensing: Applications I
FM 30.7: Talk
Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 15:45–16:00, Aula
Experimental Saturation of the Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling bound — •Durga B Rao Dasari1, Sebastian Zaiser1, Chun Tung Cheung2, Sadegh Raeisi3, and Joerg Wrachtrup1 — 13. Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany — 2Chinese University of HongKong, Shatin, HongKong, China — 3Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Heat-Bath Algorithmic cooling (HBAC) techniques provide ways to selectively enhance the polarization of target quantum subsystems. However, the cooling in these techniques is bounded. Here we report the first experimental observation of the HBAC cooling bound. We use HBAC to hyperpolarize nuclear spins in diamond. Using two carbon nuclear spins as the source of polarization (reset) and the 14N nuclear spin as the computation bit, we demonstrate that repeating a single cooling step increases the polarization beyond the initial reset polarization and reaches the cooling limit of HBAC. We benchmark the performance of our experiment over a range of variable reset polarization. With the ability to polarize the reset spins to different initial polarizations, we envisage that the proposed model could serve as a testbed for studies on Quantum Thermodynamics.