Invited Review Article: Instrumentation for nuclear magnetic resonance in zero and ultralow magnetic field

TitleInvited Review Article: Instrumentation for nuclear magnetic resonance in zero and ultralow magnetic field
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsTayler MCD, Theis T, Sjolander TF, Blanchard JW, Kentner A, Pustelny S, Pines A, Budker D
JournalReview of Scientific Instruments
Volume88
Date Published09/2017
Abstract

We review experimental techniques in our laboratory for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in zero and ultralow magnetic field (below 0.1 μT) where detection is based on a low-cost, non-cryogenic, spin-exchange relaxation free 87Rb atomic magnetometer. The typical sensitivity is 20-30 fT/Hz1/2 for signal frequencies below 1 kHz and NMR linewidths range from Hz all the way down to tens of mHz. These features enable precision measurements of chemically informative nuclear spin-spin couplings as well as nuclear spin precession in ultralow magnetic fields.
URLhttp://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5003347
DOI10.1063/1.5003347