Ultrasensitive microwave spectroscopy of paramagnetic impurities in sapphire crystals at millikelvin temperatures

WG Farr, DL Creedon, M Goryachev, K Benmessai… - Physical Review B, 2013 - APS
Progress in the emerging field of engineered quantum systems requires the development of
devices that can act as quantum memories. The realization of such devices by doping solid …

Spin-photon interaction in a cavity with time-reversal symmetry breaking

M Goryachev, WG Farr, DL Creedon, ME Tobar - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Employing a sapphire whispering gallery mode resonator, we demonstrate features of the
spin-photon interaction in cavities with broken time-reflection symmetry. The broken …

Invited article: Dielectric material characterization techniques and designs of high-Q resonators for applications from micro to millimeter-waves frequencies applicable …

JM Le Floch, Y Fan, G Humbert, Q Shan… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Dielectric resonators are key elements in many applications in micro to millimeter wave
circuits, including ultra-narrow band filters and frequency-determining components for …

Hybrid electron spin resonance and whispering gallery mode resonance spectroscopy of Fe in sapphire

K Benmessai, WG Farr, DL Creedon, Y Reshitnyk… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The development of a new era of quantum devices requires an understanding of how
paramagnetic dopants or impurity spins behave in crystal hosts. Here, we describe a …

Frequency Conversion in a High -Factor Sapphire Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator <?format ?>due to Paramagnetic Nonlinearity

DL Creedon, K Benmessai, ME Tobar - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Nonlinear frequency conversion is a well known and widely exploited family of effects in
optics, often arising from a Kerr nonlinearity in a crystal medium. Here, we report high …

Four-Wave Mixing from Spins in Sapphire

DL Creedon, K Benmessaï, WP Bowen, ME Tobar - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Fe 3+ ions in sapphire exhibit an electron spin resonance which interacts strongly with high-
Q whispering gallery modes at microwave frequencies. We report the first observation of a …

Probing dark universe with exceptional points

M Goryachev, B McAllister, ME Tobar - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2019 - Elsevier
It is demonstrated that detection of putative particles such as paraphotons and axions
constituting the dark sector of the universe can be reduced to detection of extremely weak …

Spin bath maser in a cryogenically cooled sapphire whispering gallery mode resonator

J Bourhill, K Benmessai, M Goryachev… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We report the observation of a mechanism of maser generation in an ensemble of
intercoupled, inhomogeneously broadened two-level systems, enhanced by high quality …

Discovery of iron group impurity ion spin states in single crystal Y2SiO5 with strong coupling to whispering gallery photons

M Goryachev, WG Farr, N Carmo Carvalho… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Interaction of Whispering Gallery Modes (WGMs) with dilute spin ensembles in solids is an
interesting paradigm of Hybrid Quantum Systems potentially beneficial for Quantum Signal …

Single-crystal sapphire resonator at millikelvin temperatures: Observation of thermal bistability in high- factor whispering gallery modes

DL Creedon, ME Tobar, JM Le Floch, Y Reshitnyk… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Resonance modes in single crystal sapphire (α-Al 2 O 3) exhibit extremely high electrical
and mechanical Q factors (≈ 10 9 at 4 K), which are important characteristics for …