Regensburg 2025 – scientific programme
Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Updates | Downloads | Help
O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 90: Spins on Surfaces at the Atomic Scale II
O 90.7: Talk
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 16:30–16:45, H11
Driving nuclear spin transitions on a single atom using STM — •Cristina Mier Gonzalez, Hester Vennema, Evert Stolte, Jinwon Lee, and Sander Otte — Delft University of Technology, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
Nuclear spins are highly isolated from its electronic environment compared to electron spins. This degree of isolation makes nuclear spins a promising platform for quantum technologies [1]. The development of ESR-STM has made possible the indirect measurement of nuclear spins on single atoms through the hyperfine interaction [2]. More recently, single-shot read-out on Ti isotopes has shown a nuclear lifetime of about 5 seconds [3].
In this work we aim to controllably address nuclear spin transitions using ESR-STM. We propose a double resonance measurement scheme to controllably drive the nuclear spin of a 47Ti isotope (I=5/2). Our study paves the way for coherent manipulation of single nuclear spins using STM.
[1] J. Pla et al. Nature 496, 334-338 (2013).
[2] P. Willke et al. Science 362, 336-339 (2018).
[3] E.W. Stolte et al. arXiv:2410.0870 (2024).
Keywords: ESR-STM; atomic scale; nuclear spins