{"id":5,"date":"2016-08-15T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:28:29","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/home\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p>Our research group is broadly engaged in experimental atomic and condensed-matter physics, especially including spin physics and magnetic resonance. General areas of interest include spin-polarized alkali-metal vapors and noble gases (so-called <em>hyper<\/em>polarized noble gases) and their many applications, many-body spin physics and chaos in condensed-phase spin systems, and alkali-metal and noble-gas magnetometry. We employ lasers of various kinds, light spectroscopy, NMR, and optically detected EPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We started the lab at WSU in the Summer of 2017.<\/strong> If you&#8217;re interested in our work, please contact Prof. Saam (<a href=\"mailto:brian.saam@wsu.edu\">brian.saam@wsu.edu<\/a>)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project areas of current interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The atomic and molecular interactions responsible for spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) of noble gases, including:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Optically detected EPR of alkali-metals (e.g., rubidium, cesium) for magnetometry and polarimetry of hyperpolarized noble gases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optical pumping of Cs vs. Rb for spin-exchange optical pumping of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe: Cs spin-destruction rates; Cs-<sup>129<\/sup>Xe spin-exchange rates and efficiencies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anomalous relaxation mechanisms in <sup>129<\/sup>Xe SEOP: effects of alkali-metal clustering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intrinsic and extrinsic (i.e., wall) nuclear spin relaxation of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design and fabrication of alkali-metal vapor cells for SEOP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High-volume production of highly polarized <sup>129<\/sup>Xe; flow-through <sup>129<\/sup>Xe polarizer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two-level systems in the strong-drive regime:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Optically detected EPR spectroscopy of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe Rabi oscillations in real time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spectroscopy of dressed nuclear spin states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Many-body physics and chaos-like behavior in a spin lattice:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>NMR (longitudinal and transverse relaxation) of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe and <sup>131<\/sup>Xe in a solid xenon lattice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Late-time behavior of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe transverse magnetization decays in solid xenon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}