{"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":"2018-07-10T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:57:39","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/home\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1471284809482\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div class=\"column one \">\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<p><strong>We expect to get the lab going at WSU by the start of Summer 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<p>Project areas of current interest:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The atomic and molecular interactions responsible for spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) of noble gases, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optically detected EPR of alkali-metals (e.g., rubidium, cesium) for magnetometry and polarimetry of hyperpolarized noble gases.<\/li>\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<li>Anomalous relaxation mechanisms in <sup>129<\/sup>Xe SEOP: effects of alkali-metal clustering.<\/li>\n<li>Intrinsic and extrinsic (i.e., wall) nuclear spin relaxation of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe.<\/li>\n<li>Design and fabrication of alkali-metal vapor cells for SEOP<\/li>\n<li>High-volume production of highly polarized <sup>129<\/sup>Xe; flow-through <sup>129<\/sup>Xe polarizer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Two-level systems in the strong-drive regime:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optically detected EPR spectroscopy of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe Rabi oscillations in real time<\/li>\n<li>Spectroscopy of dressed nuclear spin states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Many-body physics and chaos-like behavior in a spin lattice:<\/strong><\/p>\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<li>Late-time behavior of <sup>129<\/sup>Xe transverse magnetization decays in solid xenon.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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<p><strong>We expect to get the lab going at WSU by the start of Summer 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<p>Project areas of current interest:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The atomic and molecular interactions responsible for spin-exchange &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/home\/research\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"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":6,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/saam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/91"}],"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":"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}]}}