Spin qubits, photons, and magnets

The Berezovsky lab in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University focuses on exploring the quantum interactions that take place between spins and photons in solid state devices. We are currently studying these interactions using novel materials systems, new techniques, and tailored nanoscale electronic, magnetic, and photonic devices.

Exploring music as an ordered phase of sound

Additionally, the Berezovsky group uses methods from statistical physics to understand fundamental structures in music. We are studying music theory from first principles, and developing new ways of composing and performing music. Learn more (and listen!) here.

Catland: classical reality from quantum mechanics

It is rather mysterious how our intuitive, perceived classical reality emerges from the theory of quantum mechanics. Here is a web tutorial from the Berezovsky group presenting simulations of basic few-particle quantum evolution that aims to illustrate how this can happen, in the Everettian or "Many Worlds" picture. The tutorial is semi-technicial, with little background or math required.

What's new:

• Congrats to Dr. Jeremy Trimble on his successful PhD defense, and his new postdoc at ORNL!
• New Publication: "Renormalization-group approach to ordered phases in music".
• New Publication: "Observation of pinning and pinning evasion dynamics of a magnetic vortex core".
• New Publication: "Parallel pumping of magnons in inhomogeneous spin textures probed through NV spin relaxometry".
• New Publication: "Coherent rotation of a single spin via adiabatic half passage in the presence of a ferromagnetic vortex".
• New Publication: "Critical behavior and the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a musical phase transition".

Check out some tracks generated by the Berezovsky group using physics-inspired algorithms: