Radio-frequency manipulation of state populations in an entangled fluorine-muon-fluorine system

D Billington, E Riordan, M Salman, D Margineda… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
D Billington, E Riordan, M Salman, D Margineda, GJW Gill, SP Cottrell, I McKenzie…
Physical Review Letters, 2022APS
Entangled spin states are created by implanting muons into single-crystal LiY 0.95 Ho 0.05 F
4 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 …
Entangled spin states are created by implanting muons into single-crystal 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.
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