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Benjamin Pingault

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I am currently an assistant staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. I obtained my PhD from the University of Cambridge where I investigated the optical and spin properties of novel color centers in diamond, namely the SiV and SnV centers. I then joined Harvard University as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, working on interfacing the SiV spin with mechanical vibrations, and Delft University of Technology on many-body physics with nuclear spin ensembles in diamond. My current research focuses on interfacing spins with mechanics for quantum technologies.

Heterogeneously Integrated Diamond-on-Lithium Niobate Quantum Photonic Platform

S. W. Ding, C. Jin, Z. Li, N. Achuthan, K. Kuruma, X. Guo, B. Grinkemeyer, D. D. Awschalom, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, A. A. High, M. Loncar. Heterogeneously Integrated Diamond-on-Lithium Niobate Quantum Photonic Platform. 2026. 10.48550/arXiv.2603.08609

A Surface-Scaffolded Molecular Qubit

T. Zheng, M. I. B. Utama, X. Gao, M. Kar, X. Yu, S. Kang, H. Cai, T. Ruan, D. Ovetsky, U. Zvi, G. Lao, Y. Wang, O. Raz, S. Chitransh, G. T. Smith, L. R. Weiss, M. H. Czyz, S. Yang, A. J. Fairhall, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. D. Awschalom, A. P. Alivisatos, R. H. Goldsmith, G. C. Schatz, M. C. Hersam, P. C. Maurer. A Surface-Scaffolded Molecular Qubit. 2026. 10.48550/arXiv.2601.19976

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er3+ in CeO2 film

S. K. Seth, J. Nagura, V. Somjit, A. Bapat, X. Li, G. D. Grant, I. Masiulionis, X. Han, F. J. Heremans, G. Galli, D. D. Awschalom, S. Guha, J. Zhang. Spin decoherence dynamics of Er3+ in CeO2 film. 2025. Physical Review Letters. 10.1103/17xy-gns1

Valley splitting correlations across a silicon quantum well containing germanium

J. C. Marcks, E. Eagen, E. C. Brann, M. P. Losert, T. Oh, J. Reily, C. S. Wang, D. Keith, F. A. Mohiyaddin, F. Luthi, M. J. Curry, J. Zhang, F. J. Heremans, M. Friesen, M. A. Eriksson. Valley Splitting Correlations Across a Silicon Quantum Well. 2025. Nature Communications. 10.1038/s41467-025-67325-z

Challenges and opportunities for quantum information hardware

D. D. Awschalom, H. Bernien, R. Hanson, W. D. Oliver, J. Vučković. Challenges and opportunities for quantum information hardware. 2025. Science. 10.1126/science.adz8659

High-throughput spin-bath characterization of spin defects in semiconductors

A. N. Poteshman, M. Onizhuk, C. Egerstrom, D. P. Mark, D. D. Awschalom, F. J. Heremans, G. Galli. High-throughput spin-bath characterization of spin defects in semiconductors. 2025. Physical Review Applied. 10.1103/p57x-8kk7

Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO4 thin films

I. Masiulionis, B. Y.X. Lin, S. Kumar Seth, G. D. Grant, W. L. Lindquist, S. Kim, J. Kim, A. Yanguas-Gil, J. W. Elam, J. Zhang, J. M. LeBeau, D. D. Awschalom, S. Guha. Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO4 thin films. 2025. APL Materials. 10.1063/5.0288887

A high-resolution molecular spin-photon interface at telecommunication wavelengths

L. R. Weiss, G. T. Smith, R. A. Murphy, B. Golesorkhi, J. A. Méndez Méndez, P. Patel, J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, J. R. Long, D. D. Awschalom. A high-resolution molecular spin-photon interface at telecommunication wavelengths. 2025. Science. 10.1126/science.ady8677

A fluorescent-protein spin qubit

J.S. Feder, B. S. Soloway, S. Verma, Z. Z. Geng, S. Wang, B. Kifle, E. G. Riendeau, Y. Tsaturyan, L. R. Weiss, M. Xie, J. Huang, A. Esser-Kahn, L. Gagliardi, D. D. Awschalom, P. C. Maurer. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit. 2025. Nature. 10.1038/s41586-025-09417-w

Purcell-enhanced emissions from diamond color centers in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

S. W. Ding, C. Jin, K. Kuruma, X. Guo, M. Haas, B. Korzh, A. Beyer, M. Shaw, N. Sinclair, D. D. Awschalom, F. J. Heremans, N. Delegan, A. A. High, M. Loncar. Purcell-enhanced emissions from diamond color centers in slow light photonic crystal waveguides. 2025. Nano Letters. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01079

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