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We study intensity distribution of transmission resonances under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with lin||lin configuration in 87Rb vapor. We demonstrate that for various orientations of the external…

We demonstrate vector magnetometry with an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond without the need for an external bias field. The anisotropy of the electric dipole moments of the NV center reduces the ambiguity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Franz Münzhuber , Johannes Kleinlein , Tobias Kiessling , Laurens W. Molenkamp

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

We present a detailed spectroscopic investigation of a thermal $^{87}$Rb atomic vapour in magnetic fields up to 0.4T in the Voigt geometry. We fit experimental spectra with our theoretical model \textit{ElecSus} and find excellent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 J. Keaveney , F. S. Ponciano-Ojeda , S. M. Rieche , M. J. Raine , D. P. Hampshire , I. G. Hughes

We present results from a first demonstration of a magnetic field monitoring system for a neutron electric dipole moment experiment. The system is designed to reconstruct the vector components of the magnetic field in the interior…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-13 N. Nouri , A. Biswas , M. A. Brown , R. Carr , B. Filippone , C. Osthelder , B. Plaster , S. Slutsky , C. Swank

We explore properties of the radio-frequency atomic magnetometer, specifically its sensitivity to the polarisation of an oscillating magnetic field. This aspect can be particularly relevant to configurations where the sensor monitors fields…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 L. M. Rushton , L. M. Ellis , J. D. Zipfel , P. Bevington , W. Chalupczak

This paper presents a novel method for measuring the Poynting vector characteristics of monochromatic electromagnetic waves. We outline a specific design for such a meter and provide experimental data to validate the approach. For testing…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-15 I. Mokhun , V. Danko , A. Kovalenko

The availability of vector magnetogram sequences with sufficient accuracy and cadence to estimate the time derivative of the magnetic field allows us to use Faraday's law to find an approximate solution for the electric field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 George H. Fisher , Brian T. Welsch , William P. Abbett

In this Letter, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated a method to detect vector magnetic field with a single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond. The magnetic field in parallel with the axis of the NV center can be obtained by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 X. -D. Chen , F. -W. Sun , C. -L. Zou , J. -M. Cui , L. -M. Zhou , G. -C. Guo

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has become a widely used platform for quantum sensing. The four NV axes in mono-crystalline diamond specifically allow for vector magnetometry, with magnetic-field sensitivities reaching down to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Dennis Lönard , Isabel Cardoso Barbosa , Stefan Johansson , Jonas Gutsche , Artur Widera

The localized spin triplet ground state of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond can be used in atomic-scale detection of local magnetic fields. Here we present a technique using these defects in diamond to image fields around magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. J. Maertz , A. P. Wijnheijmer , G. D. Fuchs , M. E. Nowakowski , D. D. Awschalom

We demonstrate a fast three-axis optical magnetometer using cold, optically-trapped $^{87}$Rb gas as a sensor. By near-resonant Faraday rotation we record the free-induction decay following optical pumping along two orthogonal axes to…

Structured light, when strongly focused, generates highly confined vectorial electromagnetic field distributions which may feature a polarization component along the optical axis. Manipulating and detecting such 3D light fields is…

We present a method for performing low frequency electric field sensing via ionization detection of Rydberg atoms in a collimated atomic beam. A collimated beam avoids much of the electric field screening effects that are common in warm…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jeremy Glick , John R Dickson , Josie Wood , Paul Kunz

Measuring magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and obtaining their distribution along line-of-sight is very challenging with the traditional techniques. The Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT), which utilizes anisotropy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Q. Daniel Wang

We present an electrically-small Rydberg atom electric field sensor with the ability to extract the three-dimensional $k$-vector of an elliptically polarized radio frequency (rf) field. In most mediums, the $k$-vector (or wave vector)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Peter K. Elgee , Kevin C. Cox , Joshua C. Hill , Paul D. Kunz , David H. Meyer

The operation of polarimetric based single beam three axis atomic magnetometer is studied. The magnetometer operates in presence of small bias magnetic field. Its salient features are compared with the analysis of Bloch equation. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Swarupananda Pradhan , Rita Behera

We present a novel approach allowing an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) to be operated within Earth's magnetic field as a vector magnetometer whose sensitive axis can be freely defined. This approach enables the measurement of any…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-20 Thomas Schönau , Theo Scholtes , Florian Wittkämper , Alexander Sekels , Stefan Hiebel , Gregor Oelsner , Ronny Stolz

We present a hybrid atomic sensor that realizes radio-frequency electric field detection with intrinsic field amplification and polarization selectivity for robust high-sensitivity field measurement. The hybrid sensor incorporates a passive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 David A. Anderson , Eric G. Paradis , Georg Raithel

We demonstrate a continuous frequency electric field measurement based on the far off-resonant AC stark effect in a Rydberg atomic vapor cell. In this configuration, a strong far off-resonant field, denoted as a local oscillator (LO) field,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Jinlian Hu , Huaqiang Li , Rong Song , Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia