Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.
For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: Dmitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Host: Michael Di Rosa

TOPIC: Optical atomic magnetometers and their applications in nuclear magnetic resonance

Abstract
I will describe the physics of and recent advances in optical magnetometers. One recent area of application of these devices is signal detection in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI). As an example, I will describe our recent work on the zero-field measurements of the scalar ("J") couplings between hetero- and homonuclear spins in various molecules