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We demonstrate a centimeter-scale optomechanical magnetometer based on a crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator. The large size of the resonator allows high magnetic field sensitivity to be achieved in the hertz to kilohertz…

We present a novel approach to the detection of weak magnetic fields that takes advantage of recently developed techniques for the coherent control of solid-state electron spin quantum bits. Specifically, we investigate a magnetic sensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Taylor , P. Cappellaro , L. Childress , L. Jiang , D. Budker , P. R. Hemmer , A. Yacoby , R. Walsworth , M. D. Lukin

Over the last few years increasing consideration has been given to the study of Laser Guide Stars (LGS) for the measurement of the disturbance introduced by the atmosphere in optical and near-infrared astronomical observations from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Schreiber , I. Foppiani , C. Robert , E. Diolaiti , J. -M. Conan , M. Lombini

Detection of vector magnetic fields at nanoscale dimensions is critical in applications ranging from basic material science, to medical diagnostic. Meanwhile, an all-electric operation is of great significance for achieving a simple and…

Self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots show remarkable optical and spin coherence properties, which have lead to a concerted research effort examining their potential as a quantum bit for quantum information science1-6. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 A. N. Vamivakas , Y. Zhao , S. Falt , A. Badolato , J. M. Taylor , M. Atature

We present here a new parametric resonance magnetometer scheme based on elliptically polarized pumping light and two radio-frequency fields applied along the two optical pumping directions. At optimum ellipticity and radio-frequency fields…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Gwenael Le Gal , Laure-Line Rouve , Agustin Palacios-Laloy

We calculate, via variational techniques, single- and two-photon Rydberg microwave transitions, as well as scalar and tensor polarizabilities of sodium atom using the parametric one-electron valence potential, including the spin-orbit…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Mariusz Pawlak , Eve L. Schoen , Justin E. Albert , H. R. Sadeghpour

We study experimentally the fundamental limits of sensitivity of an atomic radio-frequency magnetometer. First we apply an optimal sequence of state preparation, evolution, and the back-action evading measurement to achieve a nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 W. Wasilewski , K. Jensen , H. Krauter , J. J. Renema , M. V. Balabas , E. S. Polzik

Using standard nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique and a well-fabricated sample, we have succeeded in directly observing local magnetic field generated by a micro-magnet Ni45Fe55 (the thickness of 400-nm) which was sputtered on an Al…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 Shinji Watanabe , Susumu Sasaki , Shinya Sato , Naoki Isogai , Yoshinori Matsumoto

We study a novel millimetre-scale magnetic trap for ultracold atoms, in which the current carrying conductors can be situated outside the vacuum region, a few mm away from the atoms. This design generates a magnetic field gradient in excess…

We present a method of optical magnetometry with parts-per-billion resolution that is able to detect biomagnetic signals generated from the human brain and heart in Earth's ambient environment. Our magnetically silent sensors measure the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 M. E. Limes , E. L. Foley , T. W. Kornack , S. Caliga , S. McBride , A. Braun , W. Lee , V. G. Lucivero , M. V. Romalis

Magnetometers based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as the most important solid-state quantum sensors. However, ensembles are limited in optical contrast to typically a few percent and high-sensitivity variants…

We present an experimental and theoretical study of a scalar atomic magnetometer using an oscillating field-driven Zeeman resonance in a high-density optically-pumped potassium vapor. We describe an experimental implementation of an atomic…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-29 S. J. Smullin , I. M. Savukov , G. Vasilakis , R. K. Ghosh , M. V. Romalis

The Mesosphere is interested by important chemical and dynamical phenomena, so observation of its Sodium layer's behavior has became a common target of several research plans all over the world. In order to study its dynamical and chemical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Guida , Alessandro Cacciani

The first successful measurements of a sub-lattice magnetism with 51V NMR techniques in the sigma-phase Fe(100-x)Vx alloys with x = 34.4, 39.9 and 47.9 are reported. Vanadium atoms present on all five crystallographic sites are magnetic.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 S. M. Dubiel , J. R. Tozoni , J. Cieslak , D. C. Braz , E. L. G. Vidoto , T. J. Bonagamba

Ultra-low field (ULF) MRI is a promising method for inexpensive medical imaging with various additional advantages over conventional instruments such as low weight, low power, portability, absence of artifacts from metals, and high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. Savukov , T. Karaulanov

Sensing small magnetic fields is relevant for many applications ranging from geology to medical diagnosis. We present a fiber-coupled diamond magnetometer with a sensitivity of (310 $\pm$ 20) pT$/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ in the frequency range of…

We suggest a multiatom cavity quantum electrodynamics system for the weak magnetic field detection based on Faraday rotation with intracavity electromagnetically induced transparency. Our study demonstrates that the collective coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Qiaolin Zhang , Hui Sun , Shuangli Fan , Hong Guo

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has been designed to include an adaptive optics system and associated laser guide star (LGS) facility to correct for the image distortion due to Earth's atmospheric turbulence and achieve diffraction-limited…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. M. Rochester , A. Otarola , C. Boyer , D. Budker , B. Ellerbroek , R. Holzlöhner , L. Wang

Magnetic imaging based on ensembles of diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum sensors has emerged as a useful technique for the spatial characterisation of magnetic materials and current distributions. However, demonstrations have so far been…