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A numerical model of single-domain nanoscale iron magnets fabricated using scanning-microscope-assisted chemical vapor deposition is simulated using finite-temperature micromagnetics. A Projective-dynamics method is used to determine the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory Brown , M. A. Novotny , Per Arne Rikvold

The use of magneto-optical techniques to tune the plasmonic response of nanostructures is a hot topic in active plasmonics, with fascinating implications for several plasmon-based applications and devices. For this emerging field, called…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Alessio Gabbani , Gaia Petrucci , Francesco Pineider

Spin polarized atomic ensembles can be used for the precise measurement of magnetic field. Conventional atomic magnetometers have demonstrated high sensitivities, albeit at low detection bandwidth, fundamentally limited by the Larmor…

Alkali-metal-noble-gas comagnetometers are precision probes well-suited for tests of fundamental physics and inertial rotation sensing, combining high sensitivity of the spin-exchange-relaxation free (SERF) magnetometers with inherent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Jingyao Wang , Junyi Lee , Hudson Loughlin , Morgan Hedges , Michael V. Romalis

In this work, we report the development of a rubidium-based single-beam scalar optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) and demonstrate its application in measuring human cardiac magnetic fields in an unshielded environment. The developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Kushal Patel , Kesavaraja C , Pranab Dutta , Korak Biswas

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

The nature of atomic vapors, their natural alignment with interatomic transitions, and their ease of use make them highly suited for spectrally narrow-banded optical filters. Atomic filters come in two flavors: a filter based on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Denis Uhland , Helena Dillmann , Yijun Wang , Ilja Gerhardt

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

A magnetometer has been developed by a simple modification of the TEL-Atomic Cavendish balance designed by the author. The usual tungsten wire fiber has been replaced with a silk thread, and a rare earth magnet has been attached to the boom…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Peters

We demonstrate the integration of a mesoscopic ferromagnetic needle with a cavity optomechanical torsional resonator, and its use for quantitative determination of the needle's magnetic properties, as well as amplification and cooling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 P. H. Kim , B. D. Hauer , T. J. Clark , F. Fani Sani , M. R. Freeman , J. P. Davis

We demonstrate a combined magneto-optical trap and imaging system that is suitable for the investigation of cold atoms near surfaces. In particular, we are able to trap atoms close to optically scattering surfaces and to image them with an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Hamid Ohadi , Matthew Himsworth , André Xuereb , Tim Freegarde

We present a theory for the estimation of a scalar or a vector magnetic field by its influence on an ensemble of trapped spin polarized atoms. The atoms interact off-resonantly with a continuous laser field, and the measurement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vivi Petersen , Lars Bojer Madsen , Klaus Molmer

Magnetic field imaging is a valuable resource for signal source localization and characterization. This work reports an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) based on the free-induction-decay (FID) protocol, that implements microfabricated…

Vector field measurement is demonstrated with an all-optical scalar atomic magnetometer using intrinsic parameters related to its scalar operation. The Bell-Bloom type atomic magnetometer measures the Larmor precession of cesium atoms…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Rui Zhang , Rahul Mhaskar , Ken Smith , Easswar Balasubramaniam , Mark Prouty

In this article, we review the history, current status, physical mechanisms, experimental methods, and applications of nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atomic vapors. We begin by describing the pioneering work of Macaluso and Corbino…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Budker , W. Gawlik , D. F. Kimball , S. M. Rochester , V. V. Yashchuk , A. Weis

A method for alignment of a vector magnetometer to a rigidly attached prism is presented. This enables optical comparison of the magnetometer axes to physical surfaces in an apparatus, and thus an absolute determination of the magnetic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-24 M. R. Dietrich , K. G. Bailey , T. P. O'Connor

For physical processes which express themselves as a frequency, for example magnetic field measurements using optically-pumped alkali-vapor magnetometers, the precise extraction of the frequency from the noisy signal is a classical problem.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Groeger , G. Bison , P. E. Knowles , A. Weis

In this work we present a practical algorithm for calibrating a magnetometer for the presence of magnetic disturbances and for magnetometer sensor errors. To allow for combining the magnetometer measurements with inertial measurements for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Manon Kok , Thomas B. Schön

Alkali-metal atomic magnetometry is widely used due to its high sensitivity and cryogen-free operation. However, when operating in geomagnetic field, it suffers from heading errors originating from nonlinear Zeeman (NLZ) splittings and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Rui Zhang , Dimitra Kanta , Arne Wickenbrock , Hong Guo , Dmitry Budker

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have emerged as a powerful technique for high-resolution magnetic field imaging. However, achieving sub-millimeter spatial resolution at sub-picotesla sensitivities ($\mathrm{< 1\,pT/\sqrt{Hz}}$)…