Welcome to the webpage of the Quantum nanophotonics and biosensing team at University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials. Our research lies at the intersection of condensed-matter physics, quantum optics, and biomedical imaging. We specialize in using color centers in diamond as quantum sensors to study nanoscale magnetic phenomena in physical, chemical, and biological systems. We are also developing nanophotonic surfaces for applications ranging from few-photon optical logic to virtual reality.
We are hiring! Postdocs and students interested in joining the lab may contact Victor Acosta, vmacosta@unm.edu.
We are located at CHTM, 1313 Goddard st. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106. Labs: 159B & 171A, Office: 115A
News
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Nate Ristoff passes candidacy exam
Congratulations to Nate who delivered a superb candidacy exam talk and passed with flying colors! |
Posted May 15, 2019, 4:23 PM by Victor Acosta
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Abdelghani accepts TT faculty position at U Nebraska
Posted May 1, 2019, 8:01 AM by Victor Acosta
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Janis wins two conference awards
Graduate student Janis Smits has been awarded the Open Readings 2019 award for his presentation on microfluidic diamond NMR at the International Conference for Students of Physics in Vilnius, Lithuania. He also won a best student talk award at the Diamond Photonics conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. |
Posted May 22, 2019, 11:38 PM by Victor Acosta
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Varifocal achromatic metalens paper
Our paper, " Achromatic varifocal metalens for the visible spectrum" has been posted to arxiv. This work was lead by our graduate student Max Aiello and research scientist Adam Backer (Sandia National Labs), in collaboration with optical scientists John Perreault and Patrick Llull at Google Daydream. |
Posted Mar 27, 2019, 9:51 PM by Victor Acosta
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2019 Cottrell Scholar
Victor is awarded a 2019 Cottrell Scholars award from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement for his project titled: "Hyperpolarization and Detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond." The award is for a combination of NV NMR research and an educational plan for developing a interdisciplinary program in computational optics. The latter is in collaboration with Keith Lidke and others at UNM.
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Posted Feb 11, 2019, 4:10 PM by Victor Acosta
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2D microfluidic NMR paper
Our paper is posted to arxiv and has been accepted for publication in Science Advances, Janis Smits*, Joshua Damron*, Pauli Kehayias, Andrew F. McDowell, Nazanin Mosavian, Ilja Fescenko, Nathaniel Ristoff, Abdelghani Laraoui, Andrey Jarmola, Victor M. Acosta, "Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with a microfluidic diamond quantum sensor", arXiv:1901.02952 (2019).
This work was led by graduate student Janis Smits and postdoc Josh Damron in collaboration with Andrey Jarmola (ODMR Tech) and Andrew McDowell (NuevoMR). |
Posted May 24, 2019, 6:24 AM by Victor Acosta
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Yaser Silani advances to PhD candidacy
congrats Yaser on an excellent candidacy exam! |
Posted Dec 11, 2018, 2:50 PM by Victor Acosta
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Quantum sensing article in ABQ Journal
The Albuquerque Journal published an article on quantum sensing and computing research efforts here in Albuquerque, including from our lab. |
Posted Dec 11, 2018, 7:53 AM by Victor Acosta
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Infrared laser magnetometer paper
Victor is a co-author on a recent publication: "Infrared laser magnetometry with a NV doped diamond intracavity etalon," Optics Express 27, 1706-1717 (2019). This work was lead by Yannick Dumeige (U Rennes) and includes collaborators throughout Europe. |
Posted Jan 23, 2019, 5:09 PM by Victor Acosta
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NIH (NIBIB) Trailblazer Award
Posted Sep 25, 2018, 6:01 AM by Victor Acosta
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NSF magnetic nanoparticle project begins
Posted Sep 5, 2018, 12:27 PM by Victor Acosta
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NIH diamond NMR project begins
Posted Sep 5, 2018, 12:21 PM by Victor Acosta
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Several more patents published in 2018
Victor is a co-inventor on the following patents published in 2018:
- J. S. Klein, V. S. Bajaj, V. M. Acosta, J. J. Schwartz, J. D. Thompson, "Biosensor for in vitro detection system and method of use." US Patent 9927442 (2018).
- V. M. Acosta, J. J. Schwartz, R. N. Mirov, "In vivo analyte detection system." US Patent 9936908 (2018).- V. M. Acosta, A. Jarmola, L. Bougas, D. Budker, "Magnetic resonance spectrometer." US Patent 15743527 (2018). |
Posted Aug 16, 2018, 10:20 PM by Victor Acosta
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Summer conference presentations
Victor presented the lab's research at the Rocky Mountain EPR conference (Snowbird, UT), the Beckman Symposium (Irvine, CA), the CINT users meeting (Santa Fe, NM) and APS 4-corners meeting (Salt Lake City) in September. Andrey Jarmola gave a talk on behalf of the group at the APES-IES EPR meeting (Brisbane, AU). |
Posted May 24, 2019, 6:35 AM by Victor Acosta
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Superconductor magnetometry review
Posted May 24, 2019, 6:32 AM by Victor Acosta
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Magnetic imaging of malarial hemozoin
Postdoc Ilja Fescenko is the lead on our new paper:
"Diamond Magnetic Microscopy of Malarial Hemozoin Nanocrystals," Ilja Fescenko, Abdelghani Laraoui, Janis Smits, Nazanin Mosavian, Pauli Kehayias, Jong Seto, Lykourgos Bougas, Andrey Jarmola, and Victor M. Acosta, Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 034029 (2019).
This work was a collaboration with biocrystal expert Jong Seto (UCSF) as well as others at UNM and around the world. |
Posted Mar 16, 2019, 5:08 PM by Victor Acosta
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Google Daydream University Research award
The lab receives a research award from Google's virtual/augmented reality division (Daydream) for a project titled "Tunable sub-micron-thick metasurfaces for VR/AR displays". In addition to lead student Max Aiello, this is a collaboration with co-PI Adam Backer (Sandia NL) and Google optical physicists John Perreault and Patrick Llull. |
Posted Jun 4, 2018, 5:06 PM by Victor Acosta
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Nazanin wins ENC student travel award
Graduate student Nazanin Mosavian has won a student travel stipend to attend the 2018 Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Orlando, May 2018. |
Posted Mar 1, 2018, 2:39 PM by Victor Acosta
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NIH retina neuronal imaging project begins
Posted Sep 18, 2017, 9:37 AM by Victor Acosta
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Metasurface project highlighted on CARC webpage
Our metasurface work was featured in a press release by UNM's Center for Advanced Research Computing titled " UNM researchers tackle next generation of VR displays". Aside from lead graduate student Max Aiello, this is a collaboration with Adam Backer (Sandia), John Perreault (Google VR), and Patrick Llullo (Google VR). |
Posted Sep 6, 2017, 9:03 AM by Victor Acosta
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NIH magnetic nanoparticle imaging project begins
Posted Sep 6, 2017, 9:02 AM by Victor Acosta
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Lectures at Brazil Winter School, Beckman, & ISMAR
-Victor delivered a series of four lectures called Diamond Quantum Photonics on Jul 27-28 at the 1st Workshop on Topological Quantum Phenomena and Quantum Information Science at the Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC), University of São Paulo in São Carlos, Brazil. -Victor also presented a poster at the 2017 Beckman Symposium on Aug 4 in Irvine, CA, -Abdelghani presented our NMR and nanoparticle work in a talk at the 2017 ISMAR conference in Quebec City. |
Posted Aug 12, 2018, 9:33 PM by Victor Acosta
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Several patents from Google published
Several of Victor's patents from his time at Google Life Sciences (now Verily) have recently been published: -Cheng-Hsun Wu, Victor Marcel Acosta, Ian Peikon, Paul Lebel, Jerrod Joseph Schwartz, "Spectrally And Spatially Multiplexed Fluorescent Probes For In Situ Cell Labeling". United States Patent 20170176338 (2017). |
Posted Aug 12, 2018, 9:33 PM by Victor Acosta
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Yaser wins student travel award
Yaser Silani has been awarded a graduate student travel grant by the organizers of the PRACQSYS conference in Seattle, WA, to present our SiV optical logic research. |
Posted Jun 15, 2017, 4:47 PM by Victor Acosta
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Victor receives Beckman Young Investigator award
Victor is selected as a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project, titled "Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy on a Diamond Chip". Abstract. |
Posted Aug 27, 2017, 9:23 AM by Victor Acosta
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