ATOMIC AND DIAMOND MAGNETOMETRY IN THE LAB, IN THE FIELD, AND IN THE SKY

There is a lot going on in the magnetometry field, with new techniques sprouting that allow ever improved sensitivity and spatial resolution. One latest rave is magnetometers based on color centers in diamond that consist of a substitutional nitrogen atom (N) and a vacancy (V) in a diamond lattice. I will talk about recent applications of magnetometers to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) without magnets (!), and discuss some other magnetometer adventures from search for plant biomagnetism to measuring magnetic fields in the mesosphere using sodium laser guide stars (LGS).

Dmitry Budker has obtained his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1993, and has been on the faculty there since 1995. His research is in the fields of laser spectroscopy, fundamental-symmetry tests, and sensitive electromagnetic measurements. He is a co-author of two textbooks on atomic physics and light-atom interactions, and a co-founder and scientist at Rochester Scientific, LLC.