P. C. Hammel

P. C. Hammel's research investigates magnetism at the nanoscale, focusing on how electron spins move and interact in materials like magnetic thin films, garnets, and antiferromagnets. A key tool in this work is quantum sensing, including using defects in diamond and boron nitride to detect tiny magnetic signals, which helps study phenomena like spin waves, magnetic damping, and skyrmions (small swirling magnetic patterns) that are relevant to future low-power computing and sensing devices. Students would likely gain experience combining experimental nanoscale imaging techniques with condensed matter physics concepts.

Publication output has declined over the past decade, from a peak of around 15 papers in 2019 to roughly 2-6 per year in recent years, averaging about 3.2 publications annually over the last five years.

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