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University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute

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The newly developed sensor that can measure the ultra-small magnetic fields is comprised of a cloud of billions of cesium gas atoms in a tiny glass tube. Using laser light, the tilts of all of the atoms are turned in the same direction.

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(Credit: Kasper Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute)

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(Credit: Kasper Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute)

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