DOE OSTI · 1250452
Gas magnetometer
Abstract
Measurement of a precessional rate of a gas, such as an alkali gas, in a magnetic field is made by promoting a non-uniform precession of the gas in which substantially no net magnetic field affects the gas during a majority of the precession cycle. This allows sensitive gases that would be subject to spin-exchange collision de-phasing to be effectively used for extremely sensitive measurements in the presence of an environmental magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field.
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Walker, Thad Gilbert, Lancor, Brian Robert, Wyllie, Robert. 2016-05-03. Gas magnetometer. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1250452
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