Magnetic field sensors (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Magnetic field sensors

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Artist's depiction of a new strategy for measuring the direction of magnetic fields by exposing a cell containing roughly a hundred billion rubidium atoms to a microwave signal.

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Steven Burrows/JILA

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