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Szymon Pustelny

Laboratory of Magnetometry and Quantum-State Engineering

Department of Photonics
Institute of Physics
Jagiellonian University
Reymonta 4
30-059 Kraków
Poland
Phone: +48 12 6635552
E-mail: pustelny(at)uj(dot)edu(dot)pl

Research interests: Nonlinear (magneto-)optics, Optical magnetometry and its applications (biomagnetism, detection of magnetic particles, etc.), Quantum-state engineering with gases, Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model - Transient exotic spin couplings, Zero- and ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance, Photonics: liquid/gas-filled microsctructured optical fibers

Selected publications:

Nonlinear (magneto-) optics:

  • W. Chalupczak, P. Joseph-Franks, R. M. Godun, and S. Pustelny, Radio-frequency spectroscopy in the dark, Phys. Rev. A 88, 052508 (2013).

Optical magnetometry and its applications

  • P. Wlodarczyk, S. Pustelny, J. Zachorowski, and M. Lipinski, Modeling an optical magnetometer with electronic circuits — analysis and optimization, J Inst. 7, P07015 (2012).
  • W. Chalupczak, R. M. Godun, S. Pustelny, and W. Gawlik, Room temperature femtotesla radio-frequency atomic magnetometer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 242401 (2012).
  • S. Pustelny, A. Wojciechowski , M. Gring , M. Kotyrba, J. Zachorowski, W. Gawlik, Magnetometry Based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation with Amplitude-Modulated Light, J. Appl. Phys. 103, 063108 (2008).

Quantum-state engineering with gases

  • G. P. Djotyan, N. Sandor, J. S. Bakos, Zs. Bakos, W. Gawlik, A. Wojciechowski, J. Zachorowski, S. Pustelny, and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan, Creation and measurement of coherent superposition states in multilevel atoms, Proc. of SPIE, 7998, 79981A (2011).
  • S. Pustelny, M. Koczwara, L. Cincio, and W. Gawlik, Tailoring quantum superpositions with linearly polarized amplitude-modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 83, 043832 (2011).
  • S. Pustelny, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, Pump-probe nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023817 (2006).

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model - Transient exotic spin couplings

  • S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, C. Pankow, M. P. Ledbetter, P. Wlodarczyk, P. Wcislo, M. Pospelov, J. R. Smith, J. Read, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, The Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics (GNOME): A novel scheme to search for physics beyond the Standard Model, Ann. Phys. 525, 659 (2013).
  • M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, Detecting Domain Walls of Axionlike Models Using Terrestrial Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021803 (2013).

Zero- and ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance

  • M. Emondts, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, T. Theis, B. Patton, J. W. Blanchard, M. C. Butler, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Long-lived heteronuclear spin-singlet states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077601 (2014).
  • M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, D. Budker, M. V. Romalis, J. W. Blanchard, and A. Pines, Liquid-State Nuclear Spin Comagnetometers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 243001 (2012).

Photonics: liquid/gas-filled microsctructured optical fibers

  • B. Wajnchold, A. Uminska, M. Grabka, D. Kotas, S. Pustelny, and W. Gawlik, Suspended-core optical fibres for organic dye absorption spectroscopy, Proc. of SPIE 8794, 87941B (2013).
  • B. Wajnchold, M. Grabka, S. Pustelny, W. Gawlik and P. Mergo, Photonic sensor of liquids based on suspended-core fibres, Proc. of SPIE 8426, 84261M (2012).