Brendan Sheehan

|Research Associate
Academic Appointments

Postdoctoral Associate

I am an experimental condensed matter physicist with expertise in the use of magnetic resonance techniques to manipulate spins in the solid state for quantum information. I am presently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Spin Laboratory (group of Prof. Chandrasekhar Ramanathan) at Dartmouth, where I study many-body spin dynamics of paramagnetic centers (13C nuclei, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, and substitutional nitrogen (P1) defect centers) in diamond, especially at high magnetic field.

Contact

Brendan.C.Sheehan@dartmouth.edu
Wilder
HB 6127

Department(s)

Physics & Astronomy

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • B.A. Colgate University

Selected Publications

  • Enhancing Coherence with a Clock Transition and Dynamical Decoupling in the Cr7Mn Molecular Nanomagnet, G. Chen, B. C. Sheehan, I. Nikolov, J. W. Logan, C. A. Collett, G. Joshi, G. A. Timco, J. E. Denhardt, K. R. Kittilstved, R. E. P. Winpenny, and J. R. Friedman, ACS Nanosci. Au (2026). [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.5c00192]

  • Clock Transitions Generated by Defects in Silica Glass, B. C. Sheehan, G. Chen, and J. R Friedman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 125, 254003 (2024). [https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0239469]

  • Direct Spectroscopic Observation of Berry-Phase Interference in the Ni4 Single-Molecule Magnet, B. C. Sheehan, R. Kwark, C.A. Collett, T. A. Costa, R. A. Allão Cassaro, and J. R. Friedman, Phys. Rev. B 102, 224428 (2020). [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.224428]

  • Adjustable Coupling and In Situ Variable Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Probe with Loop-Gap Resonators for Spectroscopy up to X-band, G. Joshi, J. Kubasek, I. Nikolov, B. C. Sheehan, T. A. Costa, R. A. Allão Cassaro, and J. R. Friedman, Rev. Sci. Inst. 91, 023104 (2020). [https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5133074]