We describe a room-temperature alkali-metal atomic magnetometer for detection of small, high frequency magnetic fields. The magnetometer operates by detecting optical rotation due to the precession of an aligned ground state in the presence of a small oscillating magnetic field. The resonance frequency of the magnetometer can be adjusted to any desired value by tuning the bias magnetic field. W...

We study the transversal motion of paramagnetic particles on a uniaxial garnet film, exhibiting a longitudinal ratchet effect in the presence of an oscillating magnetic field. Without the field, the thermal diffusion coefficient obtained by video microscopy is D(0) ≈ 3 × 10(-4)  μm2/s. With the field, the transversal diffusion exhibits a giant enhancement by almost four decades and a pronounced...

Nature Communications 7:13519 doi:10.1038/ncomms13519 (2016); Published 22 Nov 2016; Updated 17 Jan 2017 This Article contains an error in Reference 18 that was introduced during the production process. The correct reference should be: Steinbach, G. et al. Stirrers and movers actuated by oscillating fields. Preprint at arXiv:1607.04733 (2016). Reference 18 should have been cited in the second p...

Unsteady slip-flow of second grade non-Newtonian electrically conducting fluid over an oscillating sheet has been considered and solved numerically. A second-order slip velocity model is used to predict the flow characteristic past the wall. With the assumption of infinite length in x-direction, velocity of the fluid can be assumed as a function of y and t, hence, with proper variable change pa...

An analysis of unsteady MHD flow of an electrically conducting visco-elastic fluid confined between two horizontal parallel non conducting plates in presence of a transverse magnetic field and Hall current is presented. The lower plate is a stretching sheet while the upper one is an oscillating porous plate, which is oscillating in its own plane. The motion of the fluid is produced by the stret...

When a magnetic source is moved and/or oscillating above a conductive linear plate a traveling time varying magnetic field is created in the airgap. This field induces eddy currents in the plate that can simultaneously create normal and tangential forces. The transient fields and the forces created by the magnetic source are modeled using a novel 2-D analytic based A-φ method in which the prese...

A charged particle in its planar motion in a constant magnetic field is submitted a centripetal force acting on that particle. The amplitude of this force is constant in time. In this paper it is demonstrated that by a linear change in time of the magnetic induction another centripetal force acting on the particle is created. This force has an amplitude oscillating in time with the frequency eq...