Muhammad Sabieh Anwar

Muhammad Sabieh Anwar Faculty In-Charge D.Phil Physics (University of Oxford, UK) B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore)

Contents 1 Personal Information 2 Research Summary 3 Active Research Themes 4 Group Members 5 Collaborators

Personal Information

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• Articles on literature, history and science
• Teaching webpage
• research publications

Research Summary

The inter-disciplinary, experimental research group focuses on applications of quantum mechanics, especially to nuclear and electronic spin systems. One important test-bed of quantum physics are two-level quantum mechanical systems, called qubits. Electrons and spin-1/2 nuclei are natural candidates to act as qubits. At the Spin Physics Group at the SSE, we use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR) to study fudamental properties of these quantum entities.

We also investigate novel ways of analyzing and improving NMR to enhance our ability to:

(a) study chemical reactions and catalytic processes, espcially in microfludic settings,
(b) magnetically image structures with higher precision and sensitivity,
(c) interpret phenomena arising out of the purely geometrical and mathematical structure of quantum state spaces,
(d) applying spin-based techniques, often combining NMR and ESR, to demonstrate quantum information processes and
(e) precise, robust effective control of these processes, borrowing heavily from geometric and group-theoretical control theory.

Active Research Themes

• Algorithmic cooling of spin states and recyclable spin polarization
• Power of a single bit of quantum information
• Efficient quantum state tomography with a given quorum of observables
• Density matrix renormalization group theory applied to multi-spin states
• Geometric phases in magnetic resonance imaging
• ENDOR based quantum computing
• Quantum control
• Nanoparticle MRI
• Optical detection of magnetic resonance

Group Members

• Aysha Aftab, magneto-optics
• Dr. Shahid Atiq, nanomagnetism
• Dr. Shahid Ramay, nanomagnetism
• Wasif Zia, quantum optics
• Hafiz Ahmed, magneto-optics
• Saroosh Shabbir, entanglement in magnetic systems

(Former:)

• Rafiullah, magnetic resonance imaging
• Hadiah Bint-e-Munir, computational crystallohraphy
• Saman Naseer, quantum control and optimization

Collaborators

• Dr. Abubakr Muhammad, quantum control
• Dr. Saadat A. Siddiqi, nanomagnetism
• Dr. Louis Bouchard, spin physics