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Achieving the ultimate quantum precision in the estimation of multiple physical parameters simultaneously is a challenge in quantum metrology due to fundamental limitations and experimental challenges in harnessing the necessary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Atmadev Rai , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

Magnetic field sensing provides crucial insights into various geophysical phenomena such as atmospheric currents, crustal magnetism, and oceanic circulation. In this paper, a method for remote detection of magnetic fields using mesospheric…

Atomic interferometers have been studied as a promising device for precise sensing of external fields. Among various configurations, a particular configuration with a butterfly-shaped geometry has been designed to sensitively probe field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Changhun Oh , Hyukjoon Kwon , Liang Jiang , M. S. Kim

We propose a novel idea to discover millicharged particles (mCPs) captured by the earth during its existence. It has been demonstrated that the mCPs accumulation inside the earth leads to the enhancement of its number density much larger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-06 Chrisna Setyo Nugroho

Conventional superconductors respond to external magnetic fields by generating diamagnetic screening currents. However, theoretical work has shown that one can engineer systems where the screening current is paramagnetic, causing them to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Wolfgang Belzig , Jacob Linder

Direct detection experiments for dark matter are increasingly ruling out large parameter spaces. However, light dark matter models with particle masses $<$ GeV are still largely unconstrained. Here we examine a proposal to use atom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-09 Yufeng Du , Clara Murgui , Kris Pardo , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

The intrinsic magnetic fields of exoplanets affect the structure of their atmospheres and plasmaspheres and, therefore, the observational manifestations of transit absorptions. This work proposes a new method for constraining the presence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 M. Rumenskikh , A. V. Taichenachev , I. F. Shaikhislamov , V. I. Yudin

Measuring local magnetization dynamics and its spatial variation is essential for advancements in spintronics and relevant applications. Here we demonstrate a phase-sensitive imaging technique for studying patterned magnetic structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-10 Feng Guo , J. M. Bartell , D. H. Ngai , G. D. Fuchs

We realize a Mach-Zehnder-type dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope with an interrogation arm of 40 cm length and the interference area up to 1.2 cm$^2$. The precise angular alignment of the large-scale separated Raman lasers is demonstrated…

Wavefront distortions are a leading source of systematic uncertainty in light-pulse atom interferometry, limiting absolute measurements of gravitational acceleration at the 30 nm/s$^2$ level. Here, we demonstrate in situ spatially resolved…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Joseph Junca , John Kitching , William McGehee

The measurement of Zeeman splitting in spectral lines---both in emission and absorption---can provide direct estimates of the magnetic field strength and direction in atomic and molecular clouds, both in our own Milky Way and in external…

Nuclear magnetic resonance detection in ultra low field regime enables the measurement of different components of a spurious remanence in the polymeric material constituting the sample container. A differential atomic magnetometer detects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-29 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Leonardo Stiaccini , Antonio Vigilante

The high inertial sensitivity of atom interferometers has been used to build accelerometers and gyrometers but this sensitivity makes these interferometers very sensitive to the laboratory seismic noise. This seismic noise induces a phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Miffre , Marion Jacquey , Matthias Büchner , Gérard Trénec , Jacques Vigué

Magnetic-field sensing has contributed to the formulation of the plate-tectonics theory, the discovery and mapping of underground structures on Earth, and the study of magnetism in other planets. Filling the gap between space-based and…

We report a magnetic imaging method using atomic force microscopy to measure the locally induced anomalous Nernst effect. The tip contact creates a local temperature gradient on the sample surface controlled by a neighboring Joule heating…

A two-core transducer assembly using a Fe73.5Nb3Cu1Si13.5B9 ribbon to detect a change of magnetic field is proposed and tested for displacement (linear and angular) and current sensor. Two identical inductors, with the ribbon as core, are a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kaviraj , S. K. Ghatak

We demonstrate a slow-light augmented unbalanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) which can be used to enhance very significantly the sensitivity of measuring the frequency shift in a laser. The degree of enhancement depends on the group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Ruoxi Zhu , Zifan Zhou , Jinyang Li , Jason Bonacum , David D. Smith , Selim M. Shahriar

Magnetic phases are commonly identified through macroscopic magnetization, yet many ordered states, including antiferromagnets and altermagnets, possess a vanishing net moment despite distinct local spin structure. We show that such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Rishith Reddy , Parveen Kumar , Ankur Das

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

A highly excited Rydberg atom via electromagnetically induced transparency with two color cascading lasers has extreme sensitivity to electric fields of microwave ranging from 100 MHz to over 1 THz. It can be used as susceptible atom-based…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 M. H. Cai , Z. S. Xu , S. H. You , H. P. Liu