High-sensitivity atomic magnetometer unaffected by spin-exchange relaxation.
By J. Allred, R. Lyman, T. Kornack, M. Romalis. Physical Review Letters, 2002
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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
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Citations in the corpus
- Quantum Metrology with Strongly Interacting Spin Systems (2019, background): “While extremely successful in the context of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging [10–15], and atomic gas magnetometers [16], the efficacy of these techniques is severely limited in the presence of strong disorder and other imperfections.”
- Subpicotesla atomic magnetometry with a microfabricated vapour cell (2007, background): “This linewidth is lower by a factor of 50 than the estimated spin-exchange-limited linewidth at this alkali atom density and corresponds closely to the linewidth limited by alkali–buffer-gas spin destructio”
- Resonant nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atoms (2002, background): “Allred et al. (2002) have investigated the possibility of biomagnetic imaging applications of NMOE.”
- Atomic Sensors – A Review (2011, background): “While all of these alkali magnetometers are subject to resonance broadening through spinexchange collisions between the atoms, a new generation of so-called spin-exchange relaxation free (SERF) magnetometers [1], [ 41 ] has reached the highest sensitivities so far by suppressing this broadening in a”
- Optical magnetometry - eScholarship (2006, neutral): “The measured spin-destruction cross-sections are smaller for lighter alkali-metal atoms and result in a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of a K magnetometer of about 10−17V −1/2 T/Hz [29], where V is the active volume of the sensor in cm(3).”
- Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules (2017, methodology): “The measurement technique is based on the principles of spin-exchange-relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometry Allred et al. (2002); Kominis et al. (2003); Kornack et al. (2005); Kornack and Romalis (2002).”
- Optically pumped magnetometers: From quantum origins to multi-channel magnetoencephalography (2019, methodology): “Some optically pumped magnetometers are operated as zero-field magnetometers or SERF (Spin Exchange Relaxation Free) Magnetometers (Allred et al., 2002).”
- A subfemtotesla multichannel atomic magnetometer (2003, background): “In our magnetometer operating at zero field, the effective γ for sensitivity estimates is γ e gµ B / p (equation (7) of ref”
- Magnetic sensors and their applications (2006, methodology): “By eliminating spin-exchange relaxation using high K density and low magnetic fields a sensitivity of 10 fT or nT Hz was achieved in an optically pumped magnetometer [64].”
- Developments in alkali -metal atomic magnetometry (2008, methodology): “This is comparable to previous measurements with SERF magnetometers using buffer gas (Allred et al., 2002; Kominis et al., 2003), and it is possibly limited by thermal Johnson noise produced by the μ-metal shields, which we 11 We take into account the polarization distribution due to partial illumin”