Benchtop magnetic shielding for benchmarking atomic magnetometers

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Autori principali: Hobson, P. J., Holmes, N., Patel, P., Chalmers, J., Styles, B., Morley, C., Davis, A., Packer, M., Smith, T. X., Raudonyte, S., Holmes, D., Harrison, R., Woolger, D., Sims, D., Brookes, M. J., Bowtell, R. W., Fromhold, T. M.
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author Hobson, P. J.
Holmes, N.
Patel, P.
Chalmers, J.
Styles, B.
Morley, C.
Davis, A.
Packer, M.
Smith, T. X.
Raudonyte, S.
Holmes, D.
Harrison, R.
Woolger, D.
Sims, D.
Brookes, M. J.
Bowtell, R. W.
Fromhold, T. M.
author_facet Hobson, P. J.
Holmes, N.
Patel, P.
Chalmers, J.
Styles, B.
Morley, C.
Davis, A.
Packer, M.
Smith, T. X.
Raudonyte, S.
Holmes, D.
Harrison, R.
Woolger, D.
Sims, D.
Brookes, M. J.
Bowtell, R. W.
Fromhold, T. M.
contents Here, a benchtop hybrid magnetic shield containing four mumetal cylinders and nine internal flexible printed circuit boards is designed, constructed, tested, and operated. The shield is designed specifically as a test-bed for building and operating ultra-sensitive quantum magnetometers. The geometry and spacing of the mumetal cylinders are optimized to maximize shielding efficiency while maintaining Johnson noise $<15$ fT/$\sqrt{}$Hz. Experimental measurements at the shield's center show passive shielding efficiency of $\left(1.0\pm0.1\right){\times}10^6$ for a $0.2$ Hz oscillating field applied along the shield's axis. The nine flexible printed circuit boards generate three uniform fields, which all deviate from perfect uniformity by ${\leq}0.5$% along $50$% of the inner shield axis, and five linear field gradients and one second-order gradient, which all deviate by ${\leq}4$% from perfect linearity and curvature, respectively, over measured target regions. Together, the target field amplitudes are adjusted to minimize the remnant static field along $40$% of the inner shield axis, as mapped using an atomic magnetometer. In this region, the active null reduces the norm of the magnitudes of the three uniform fields and six gradients by factors of $19.5$ and $19.8$, respectively, thereby reducing the total static field from $1.68$ nT to $0.23$ nT.
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spellingShingle Benchtop magnetic shielding for benchmarking atomic magnetometers
Hobson, P. J.
Holmes, N.
Patel, P.
Chalmers, J.
Styles, B.
Morley, C.
Davis, A.
Packer, M.
Smith, T. X.
Raudonyte, S.
Holmes, D.
Harrison, R.
Woolger, D.
Sims, D.
Brookes, M. J.
Bowtell, R. W.
Fromhold, T. M.
Instrumentation and Detectors
Applied Physics
Here, a benchtop hybrid magnetic shield containing four mumetal cylinders and nine internal flexible printed circuit boards is designed, constructed, tested, and operated. The shield is designed specifically as a test-bed for building and operating ultra-sensitive quantum magnetometers. The geometry and spacing of the mumetal cylinders are optimized to maximize shielding efficiency while maintaining Johnson noise $<15$ fT/$\sqrt{}$Hz. Experimental measurements at the shield's center show passive shielding efficiency of $\left(1.0\pm0.1\right){\times}10^6$ for a $0.2$ Hz oscillating field applied along the shield's axis. The nine flexible printed circuit boards generate three uniform fields, which all deviate from perfect uniformity by ${\leq}0.5$% along $50$% of the inner shield axis, and five linear field gradients and one second-order gradient, which all deviate by ${\leq}4$% from perfect linearity and curvature, respectively, over measured target regions. Together, the target field amplitudes are adjusted to minimize the remnant static field along $40$% of the inner shield axis, as mapped using an atomic magnetometer. In this region, the active null reduces the norm of the magnitudes of the three uniform fields and six gradients by factors of $19.5$ and $19.8$, respectively, thereby reducing the total static field from $1.68$ nT to $0.23$ nT.
title Benchtop magnetic shielding for benchmarking atomic magnetometers
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15612