2003
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.253001
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Selective Addressing of High-Rank Atomic Polarization Moments

Abstract: We describe a method of selective generation and study of polarization moments of up to the highest rank κ = 2F possible for a quantum state with total angular momentum F . The technique is based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light. Various polarization moments are distinguished by the periodicity of light-polarization rotation induced by the atoms during Larmor precession and exhibit distinct light-intensity and frequency dependences. We apply the method to study polarization … Show more

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“…Several approaches have been proposed to alleviate the adverse effects of the nonlinear Zeeman effect in all-optical magnetometers, including synchronous optical pumping at the quantum revival frequency given by the quadratic correction to the Zeeman energies (Ref. [42] and references therein), and selective excitation and detection of coherences (that correspond to high-order polarization multipoles) between "stretched" Zeeman sublevels unaffected by nonlinear Zeeman effect [43,44,45].…”
Section: Additional Characteristics Of a Magnetometermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several approaches have been proposed to alleviate the adverse effects of the nonlinear Zeeman effect in all-optical magnetometers, including synchronous optical pumping at the quantum revival frequency given by the quadratic correction to the Zeeman energies (Ref. [42] and references therein), and selective excitation and detection of coherences (that correspond to high-order polarization multipoles) between "stretched" Zeeman sublevels unaffected by nonlinear Zeeman effect [43,44,45].…”
Section: Additional Characteristics Of a Magnetometermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, the optical properties of the medium are modulated at the quantum-beat frequency, leading to modulation of the angle of the light polarization. If the time-dependent optical rotation is measured at the first harmonic of the modulation frequency Ω m , ultra-narrow resonances are observed at near-zero magnetic fields, and at fields where the modulation frequency Ω m is a subharmonic of one of the quantum-beat frequencies of the system [18,23,31]. It should be noted that this technique yields a scalar magnetometer: the precession frequency is dependent only on the magnitude of the magnetic field and not its direction.…”
Section: Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation With Frequency-modulamentioning
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“…Such signals are dominated by the precession of the quadrupole moment (atomic alignment) associated with ∆M F = 2 coherences, see Refs. [24,31,32]. Higher order multipole moments were studied in Refs.…”
Section: Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation With Frequency-modulamentioning
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“…An atomic state with total angular momentum F can support multipole moments with rank up to κ = 2F [14,15]; multi-photon interactions and multipole transitions higher than dipole allow the higher-order moments to be created and detected. Magneto-optical techniques can be used to selectively address individual high-rank multipoles [17,18]. Recently, the possibility of using the κ = 4 hexadecapole moment to improve the characteristics of atomic magnetometers was studied (see Ref.…”
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