Quantum magnonics via color centers

I will review our recent work that aims at harvesting quantum fluctuations of magnetic systems, with both quantum information and many-body physics in mind. Focusing on magnons as building blocks of collective spin dynamics in magnetic insulators, I will discuss the prospects of their scalable integration with proximal color centers, such as nitrogen-vacancy impurities, using the latter as either quantum sensors, which can be operated in a range of different physical modalities, or qbits, whose entangled dynamics is governed by the common dissipative magnonic environment. Recent experiments on using color centers as spectrally-resolved sensors of magnetic dynamics demonstrate their strong coupling with a range of 2D materials. Inspired in part by the ideas from quantum optics, we are now pursuing the inverse functionality: imprinting collective quantum noise of a tunable nonequilibrium environment to engender emergent many-body properties of color-center ensembles.