A liquid of identical molecules as first-of-its-kind comagnetometer

Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Mainz built a comagnetometer based on an ensemble of identical molecules.

Thus the problem is: you need two magnetic field measurements to look for tiny effects, but when you use two different molecules to interact with the magnetic fields, the molecules tend to end up in different places (at least a little bit).

Solution: use one type of molecule that provides two measurements of magnetic fields.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 023202, 2018

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02096.pdf

Updated: October 24, 2018 — 5:55 pm