[Isac-journal-club] Next week's snack club's paper (Dec 7)

[Journal Club]

A reminder that today's journal/snack club will be taking place at 3:30pm
in the MOB theory room.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:50 PM, journalclub <journalclub at triumf.ca> wrote:

> WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7TH  MOB THEORY ROOM
> ​Does anyone know where we can buy some good mince pies?​
>
> ​We've got an interesting one for you this week:
> http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.052330
>
> Presented by the greasy (GRSI) coop students, we have a paper that
> discusses measurement of magnetic fields using physics that spans several
> disciplines.
>
> There is some basic physics for students at the start and some confusing
> jargon for angry old people at the end. Hopefully we can get enough people
> with different expertise together to understand the paper by the end of the
> discussion.
>
> The paper is attached, along with a nature communication which might help
> dumb down the important parts.
>
> Here are some questions to lead our reading and discussion:
>
> What is a quibit?
>
> What's an NV centre?
>
> What are fine and hyperfine splitting?
>
> How do they use an optical laser to measure the magnetic field in the
> method in section 2?
>
> What do they mean by, “rotating spins with microwaves”?
>
> How do the nuclear and elctron spins affect each other?
>
> Why does the nuclear spin have a longer coherence time than the electron
> spin?
>
> What are the C-Not and SWAP gates? And how are they applied?
>
> What do they mean by flip flops between electron spin and nuclear spin?
>
> Why do we care about being able to measure such small magnetic fields?
>
>
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