Quantum engineers have designed a new tool to probe nature with extreme sensitivity

(Nanowerk News) In a paper published in the journal Science Advances (“In situ amplification of spin echoes within a kinetic inductance parametric amplifier”), Associate Professor Jarryd Pla and his team from UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, together with colleague Scientia Professor Andrea Morello, described a new device that can measure the spins in materials with high precision. “The spin of an electron – whether it points up or down – is a fundamental property of nature,” says A/Prof. Pla. “It is used in magnetic hard disks…