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

[Journal Club]

Journal club in 30 minutes.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Journal Club <journalclub at triumf.ca> wrote:

> 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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