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Manipulating quantum impurity spins via dynamical modes of nanomagnets

Quantum impurity (QI) spins offer promising information processing and sensing applications by harnessing up to room-temperature quantum coherence. Challenged by the requirement of designing local coherent drives and improving sensitivity to various signals for such applications, the search of hybrid systems coupling QI spins with matter excitations have garnered significant recent interest. We propose and theoretically study a hybrid system that couples spin-1 QI with the dynamical excitations of nanomagnets, which are controlled by mechanisms uncovered in classical spintronics. We show that in such systems the QI-spin decoherence, due to coupling to thermally excited modes of the nanomagnet, can be designed across a wide range by exploiting the control over nanomagnet's mode ellipticity and the chiral nature of the coupling between the QI spin and nanomagnet. On the other hand, when activated electrically via voltage-induced torques, we demonstrate that QI spins can be driven coherently with large quality factors at room temperature by leveraging inherent non-linear precessional modes of the nanomagnet. Our results provide theoretical guidance for enabling unique quantum spintronic functionalities, such as local coherent driving of QI spins up to ambient conditions, and the design of nanomagnet-enhanced QI-based hybrid sensors.