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We demonstrate a new method for measuring radio frequency (RF) electric fields based on quantum interference in an atom. Using a bright resonance prepared within an electromagnetically induced transparency window we are able to achieve a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 J. Sedlacek , A. Schwettmann , H. Kübler , R. Löw , T. Pfau , J. P. Shaffer

Precision sensing, and in particular high precision magnetometry, is a central goal of research into quantum technologies. For magnetometers, often trade-offs exist between sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency range. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 I. Baumgart , J. -M. Cai , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio , Ch. Wunderlich

Magnetic Faraday rotation is widely used in optics. In natural transparent materials, this effect is very weak. One way to enhance it is to incorporate the magnetic material into a periodic layered structure displaying a high-Q resonance.…

Optics · Physics 2008-06-19 Alex Figotin , Ilya Vitebskiy

We demonstrate a highly sensitive real-time magnetometry method at two measurement points. This magnetometry method is based on the frequency-division multiplexing of continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance. We use two…

A photon-magnon hybrid system can be realised by coupling the electron spin resonance of a magnetic material to a microwave cavity mode. The quasiparticles associated with the system dynamics are the cavity magnon polaritons, which arise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 N. Crescini , C. Braggio , G. Carugno , A. Ortolan , G. Ruoso

Developing microwave electric field sensing based on Rydberg atom has received significant attention due to its unique advantages. However, achieving effective coupling between Rydberg atom and the microwave electric field in the sensing…

We propose a quantum non-demolition method - giant Faraday rotation - to detect a single electron spin in a quantum dot inside a microcavity where negatively-charged exciton strongly couples to the cavity mode. Left- and right-circularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Y. Hu , A. Young , J. L. O'Brien , J. G. Rarity

Cavity optomechanical magnetic field sensors, constructed by coupling a magnetostrictive material to a micro-toroidal optical cavity, act as ultra-sensitive room temperature magnetometers with tens of micrometre size and broad bandwidth,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Yimin Yu , Stefan Forstner , Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop , Warwick P. Bowen

We report a cavity-enabled solid-state magnetometer based on an NV ensemble coupled with a dielectric cavity, achieving 12 pT/$\sqrt{\rm{Hz}}$ sensitivity and a nearly threefold gain from multispectral features. The features originate from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Himanshu Kumar , Rahul Gupta , Saikat Ghosh , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Kasturi Saha

Magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) has attracted interest in various research fields due to its special superparamagnetic and strong magneto-optical effects, especially as contrast agents to enhance the contrast of medical imaging. By introducing…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-01 Xinchao Cui , Feidi Xiang , Chong Lu , Chunping Liu , Wenzhong Liu

The resonant cavity system has been widely used to search for the electromagnetic response of dark photons, although its achievable detection sensitivity remains at a relatively low level. In this letter, we propose a feasible approach to…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. R. He , L. Gao , P. H. Ouyang , H. Zheng , X. N. Feng , L. F. Wei

We observe velocity-selective two-photon resonances in a cold atom cloud in the presence of a magnetic field. We use these resonances to demonstrate a simple magnetometer with sub-mG resolution. The technique is particularly useful for…

$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-breaking enhanced cavity optomechanical magnetometer is proposed, which is achieved by monitoring the change of intensity of a nonlinear four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a gain-cavity-assisted cavity optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Zhucheng Zhang , Yi-Ping Wang , Xiaoguang Wang

We present a general framework for cavity quantum electrodynamics with strongly frequency-dependent mirrors. The method is applicable to a variety of reflectors exhibiting sharp internal resonances as can be realized, for example, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ondřej Černotík , Aurélien Dantan , Claudiu Genes

We develop a theory for the interaction of multi-level atoms with multi-mode cavities yielding cavity-enhanced multi-photon resonances. The locations of the resonances are predicted from the use of effective two- and three-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark S. Everitt , Barry M. Garraway

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful technique for investigating the microscopic properties and dynamics of physical systems. In this work we demonstrate state-sensitive MRI of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Single-shot…

We describe an easily implementable method for non-destructive measurements of ultracold atomic clouds based on dark field imaging of spatially resolved Faraday rotation. The signal-to-noise ratio is analyzed theoretically and, in the…

It has been demonstrated that the Rydberg criticality in a many-body atomic system can enhance the measurement sensitivity of the microwave electric field by increasing the Fisher information. In our previous work, we proposed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Qinxia Wang , Yukang Liang , Zhihui Wang , Shijun Guan , Pengfei Yang , Pengfei Zhang , Gang Li , Tiancai Zhang

We analyze the interaction of a nanomagnet with a single photonic mode of a microcavity in a fully quantum-mechanical treatment and find that exceptionally large quantum-coherent magnet-photon coupling can be achieved. Coupling terms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Öney O. Soykal , M. E. Flatté

We demonstrate $4\pi$-steradian vector magnetic field sensing using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a single-crystal diamond coupled to a microwave (MW) cavity. The MW cavity enhances the spin-photon coupling which enables…