Andy Mounce is a condensed matter physicist focused on quantum sensing and quantum information science using spin defects in solid-state systems. His work centers on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and boron-vacancy centers in hexagonal boron nitride, exploited as atomic-scale sensors for DC and AC magnetic imaging from room temperature to cryogenic conditions. He also investigates strongly correlated electron materials, semiconductor qubit architectures, and quantum networking. He contributes to open-source quantum hardware through the QICK-DAWG platform and operates single-photon spectroscopy and quantum sensing tools at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a DOE nanoscience user facility.
Presentation Title:
QICK-DAWG: A Low-Cost Open-Source FPGA Platform for Quantum Defect Control
Presentation Abstract:
Quantum defects are impurities in semiconductors with optimal properties for quantum sensing, networking, and computing, with microwave spin control and on-demand single photon emission. Here, I present QICK-DAWG, an open-source software and firmware extension to the QICK framework enabling full quantum control of spin defects using low-cost RFSoC FPGAs. We demonstrate its capabilities across three recent advances in vacancy-boron​defects in hexagonal boron nitride and nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. These results establish QICK-DAWG as a versatile, accessible platform for advancing quantum sensing and quantum memory applications with solid-state spin defects.