We describe and operate a spin-magnetometer based on the phase modulation of cavity magnon polaritons. In this scheme a rf magnetic field is detected through the sidebands it induces on a pump, and the experimental configuration allows for a negligible pump noise and a high-frequency readout. The demonstrator setup, based on a copper cavity coupled to an yttrium iron garnet sphere hybrid system, reached a sensitivity of 2.0 pT/√Hz at 220 MHz, evading the pump noise and matching the theoretical predictions. An optimized setup can attain a rf magnetic field sensitivity of about 8 fT/√Hz at room temperature. An orders of magnitude improvement is expected at lower temperatures, making this instrument one of the few magnetometers accessing the subfemtotesla limit.
Phase-modulated cavity magnon polaritons as a precise magnetic field probe
Crescini, N.;
2021
Abstract
We describe and operate a spin-magnetometer based on the phase modulation of cavity magnon polaritons. In this scheme a rf magnetic field is detected through the sidebands it induces on a pump, and the experimental configuration allows for a negligible pump noise and a high-frequency readout. The demonstrator setup, based on a copper cavity coupled to an yttrium iron garnet sphere hybrid system, reached a sensitivity of 2.0 pT/√Hz at 220 MHz, evading the pump noise and matching the theoretical predictions. An optimized setup can attain a rf magnetic field sensitivity of about 8 fT/√Hz at room temperature. An orders of magnitude improvement is expected at lower temperatures, making this instrument one of the few magnetometers accessing the subfemtotesla limit.
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