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• Books
• Fundamental Symmetry Tests: Reviews and Proposals
• Parity Nonconservation, variation of α, laser cooling, and related physics in Dysprosium
• Parity Nonconservation and related physics in Ytterbium
• Investigation of anti-relaxation coated cells for magnetometers, atomic clocks, etc.; Light-Induced Atomic Desorption
• Nonlinear magneto- and electro-optics; atomic magnetometry
• Detection of magnetic microparticles
• Exotic physics
• Sodium laser guide stars (LGS) and mesospheric magnetometry
• NV-diamond: physics and magnetometry
• Biomagnetism
• Squeezed light, squeezed spins
• Nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance (and non-resonance), imaging
• Atomic spectroscopy at low temperatures; electro-optics of cryogenic liquids
• Condensed-matter EDM experiments
• Spectroscopy of samarium
• Spectroscopy of silver
• Spectroscopy of barium
• Tests of quantum statistics
• Optics
• Miscellaneous Papers

Books

Fundamental Symmetry Tests: Reviews and Proposals

• D. H. Beck, D. Budker, and B. K. Park,  From yeV to TeV: Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1273
• D. R. Dounas-Frazer, K. Tsigutkin, D. English, and D. Budker, Parity violation in two-photon J=0-to-1 transitions; http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0102
• D. R. Dounas-Frazer, K. Tsigutkin, D. English, and D. Budker, Parity violation in two-photon J=0-to-1 transitions: Analysis of systematic errors; http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6912
• D. R. Dounas-Frazer, K. Tsigutkin, D. English, and D. Budker, Atomic parity  violation in 0-to-0 two-photon transitions,  Phys. Rev. A. 84, 023404 (2011); http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3364
• D. Budker, B. K. Sahoo, D. Angom, and B. P. Das, An overview of some experimental and theoretical aspects of fundamental symmetry violations in atoms, Pramana---journal of physics (Indian Academy of Sciences) 75(6), 1041-1056 (2010)
  
• D. Budker, Parity Noncoservation in Atoms, Physics Beyond the Standard Model, proceedings of the Fifth Intrnational WEIN Symposium, P. Herczeg, C. M. Hoffman, and H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, eds. World Scientific, 1999; pp. 418-441.
• D.F. Kimball, D. Budker, D.S. English, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, A.O. Sushkov, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Progress towards fundamental symmetry tests with nonlinear optical rotation, in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and Ph. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, 2001, pp. 84-107.
• D. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman, and M. Zolotorev: Atomic tests of discrete symmetries at Berkeley, in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and Ph. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, 2001, pp. 108-122.
• M. Zolotorev and D. Budker, Prospects for Measuring Parity Nonconservation in Hydrogenic Ions Using High-Energy Accelerators, "Parity Violation in Atoms and Electron Scattering" B. Frois and M. A. Bouchiat, eds., World Scientific, 1999, p. 364.
• M. Zolotorev and D. Budker, Parity Nonconservation in Relativistic Hydrogenic Ions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78(25), 4717 (1997).

Parity Nonconservation, variation of α, laser cooling, and related physics in Dysprosium

• N. Leefer, A. Cingöz, B. Gerber-Siff, Arijit Sharma, J. R. Torgerson, and D. Budker, Transverse laser cooling of a thermal atomic beam of dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 81(4), 043427 (2010) (arXiv:0912.2133) 
• N. A. Leefer, A. Cingöz, and D. Budker, Measurement of hyperfine structure and isotope shifts in the Dy 421-nm transition, Optics Letters 34(17), 2548-2550 (2009) (arXiv:0904.1438)
• N. A. Leefer, A. Cingöz, D. Budker, S. J. Ferrell, V. V. Yashchuk, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, S. K. Lamoreaux, J. R. Torgerson,  Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant and Laser Cooling of Atomic Dysprosium, in Proceedings of the 7th Symposium: Frequency Standards and Metrology, Asilomar, October 2008; Lute Maleki, Ed., World Scientific, pp. 34-43; arXiv:0811.3992
• A. Cingöz, N.A. Leefer, S.J. Ferrell, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, A laboratory search for variation of the fine-structure constant using atomic dysprosium, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 163, 71-88 (2008).
• S. J. Ferrell, A. Cingoz, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, N. Leefer, D.  Budker, V. V. Flambaum, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, 

  Investigation on the Gravitational Potential Dependence of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 76(6), 062104 (2007) (arXiv:0708.0569)
• A. Cingoz, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, N. Leefer, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Limit on the Temporal Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 040801 (2007)  (physics/0609014)
• A. Cingoz, A.-T. Nguyen, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Collisional perturbation of radio-frequency E1 transitions in an atomic beam of dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 72, 063409 (2005) (physics/0508148)
• A. T. Nguyen, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Sensitive search for the temporal variation of the fine structure constant using radio-frequency E1 transitions in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 69, 022105 (2004) (physics/0308104)
• A.-T. Nguyen, G. D. Chern, D. Budker, and M. Zolotorev, Efficient population transfer in a multi-level system, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 013406 (2001).
• A.-T. Nguyen, D.E. Brown, D. Budker, D. DeMille, D.F. Kimball, and M. Zolotorev, Search for PNC in Atomic Dysprosium, "Parity Violation in Atoms and Electron Scattering", B. Frois and M. A. Bouchiat, eds., World Scientific, 1999, p. 295.
• A.-T. Nguyen, D. Budker, D. DeMille, and M. Zolotorev, Search for parity nonconservation in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 56(5), 3453-63 (1997).
• D. Budker, D. DeMille, E.D. Commins, and M.S. Zolotorev, Experimental investigation of excited states in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 50, 132-143 (1994).
• D. DeMille, D. Budker, E. Commins, and M. Zolotorev, Nearly-Degenerate Opposite-Parity Levels in Atomic Dysprosium: A Novel System for the Study of Parity Non-Conservation, Moriond Workshop, 1994 (Word).
• Dmitry Budker, Eugene D. Commins, David DeMille, and Max S. Zolotorev, Laser spectroscopy and lifetime measurements of Dy I states, Optics Letters 16(19), 1514-1516 (1991).

Parity Nonconservation and related physics in Ytterbium

• D. R. Dounas-Frazer, K. Tsigutkin, A. Family,  and D. Budker, Measurement of dynamic Stark polarizabilities by analyzing spectral lineshapes of forbidden transitions, Phys. Rev. A 82(6), 062507 (2010) (arXiv:1009.5952)
• K. Tsigutkin, D. Dounas-Frazer, A. Family, J. E. Stalnaker, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Parity violation in atomic ytterbium: experimental sensitivity and systematics, Phys. Rev. A 81(3), 032114 (2010) (arXiv:1001.0587)
• K. Tsigutkin, D. Dounas-Frazer, A. Family, J. E. Stalnaker, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, Observation of a Large Atomic Parity Violation Effect in Ytterbium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 071601 (2009). (arXiv:0906.3039) This work has been covered in an LBNL news feature story, in the Russian news, Ukrainian news, German News,  in physicsworld, in an APS Viewpoint, and by Futura-Sciences (in French)
• K. Tsigutkin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and V. V. Yashchuk, Towards measuring nuclear-spin-dependent and isotopic-chain atomic parity violation in Ytterbium, in From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more..., Ed. by K. de Jager et al, Springer 2007. (physics/0608314)
• J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, J. S. Guzman, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Dynamic Stark effect and forbidden-transition spectral lineshapes, Phys. Rev. A 73, 043416 (2006). (physics/0512111)
• J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, D. P. DeMille, S. J. Freedman, and V.V. Yashchuk, Experimental determination of the 6s^{2 1}S₀->5d6s³D₁ magnetic-dipole transition amplitude in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 65 (2002), 031403. (physics/0201026)
• D. Budker and J. E. Stalnaker, Magnetoelectric Jones dichroism in atoms Phys. Rev. Lett., 91(26), 263901 (2003). (physics/0302096)
• D.F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, and M. Zolotorev, Collisional Perturbation of States in Atomic Ytterbium by Helium and Neon, Phys. Rev. A 60(2), 1103 (1999).
• C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, G.Gwinner, and J.E. Stalnaker, Experimental investigation of the 6s^{2 1}S₀→5d6s ³D_1,2 forbidden transitions in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 59(5), 3513 (1999).
• C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, E.D. Commins, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, A.-T. Nguyen, S.-Q. Shang, and M. Zolotorev, Experimental investigation of excited state lifetimes in atomic ytterbium,Phys. Rev. A 53(5), 3103-9 (1996).
• B. DeBoo, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and D. Budker, Multichannel Conical Emission and Parametric and Nonparametric Nonlinear Processes in Yb vapor, JOSA B, 18(5), 639-645 (2001).
• D.F. Kimball, Parity-nonconserving optical rotation on the 6s6p ³P₀→6s6p ¹P₁ transition in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 63, 052113 (2001).

Investigation of anti-relaxation coated cells for magnetometers, atomic clocks, etc.; Light-Induced Atomic Desorption

• Mikhail V. Balabas, Todor Karaulanov, Micah P. Ledbetter, and Dmitry Budker, Polarized alkali vapor with minute-long transverse spin-relaxation time, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 070801 (2010),  arXiv:1005.1617
• V. M. Acosta, A. Jarmola, D. Windes, E. Corsini, M. P. Ledbetter, T. Karaulanov, M. Auzinsh, S. A. Rangwala, D. F. Jackson Kimball, and D. Budker, Rubidium dimers in paraffin-coated cells, New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 083054 (2010); arXiv:1005.0215
• S. J. Seltzer, D. J. Michalak, M. H. Donaldson, M. V. Balabas, S. K. Barber, S. L. Bernasek, M.-A. Bouchiat, A. Hexemer, A. M. Hibberd, D. F. Jackson Kimball, C. Jaye, T. Karaulanov, F. A. Narducci, S. A. Rangwala, H. G. Robinson, A. K. Shmakov, D. L. Voronov, V. V. Yashchuk, A. Pines, and D. Budker, Investigation of Anti-Relaxation Coatings for Alkali-Metal Vapor Cells Using Surface Science Techniques, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 144703 (2010); arXiv:1002.4417
• D. F. Jackson Kimball, Khoa Nguyen, K. Ravi, Arijit Sharma, Vaibhav S. Prabhudesai, S. A. Rangwala, V. V. Yashchuk, M. V. Balabas, and D. Budker, Electric-field-induced change of alkali-metal vapor density in paraffin-coated cells, Phys. Rev. A 79, 032901 (2009); arXiv:0812.4959
• T. Karaulanov, M. T. Graf, D. English, S. M. Rochester, Y. Rosen, K. Tsigutkin, D. Budker, M. V. Balabas, D. F. Jackson Kimball, F. A. Narducci, S. Pustelny, V. V. Yashchuk, Controlling atomic vapor density in paraffin-coated cells using light-induced atomic desorption, Phys. Rev. A 79, 012902 (2009); arXiv:0806.0663
• J. S. Guzman, A. Wojciechowski, J. E. Stalnaker, K. Tsigutkin, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Zeeman and hyperfine relaxation of potassium atoms in a paraffin-coated cell, Phys. Rev. A 74(5)  053415 (2006); physics/0607061
• M. T. Graf, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, K. Kerner, C. Wong, D. Budker, E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, and V. V. Yashchuk, Relaxation of atomic polarization in paraffin-coated cesium vapor cells, Phys. Rev. A 72, 023401 (2005); physics/0503202
• D. Budker, L. Hollberg, D. F. Kimball, J. Kitching, S. Pustelny, and V. V. Yashchuk, Investigation of microwave transitions and nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in anti-relaxation-coated cells, Phys. Rev. A 71, 012903 (2005); physics/0408009
• E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, D. S. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and V.V. Yashchuk, Light-Induced Desorption of Alkali Atoms from Paraffin Coating, Phys. Rev. A 66, 042903 (2002); erratum: Phys. Rev. A 70, e049902 (2004); physics/0406154

Nonlinear magneto- and electro-optics; atomic magnetometry

• Dmitry Budker, Magnetometry: Techniques, Recent Developments, Applications, at  AZoquantum.com: The A to Z of Quantum Science (May 2011) 

• Chris Hovde, Brian Patton, Oscar Versolato, Eric Corsini, Simon Rochester, and Dmitry Budker, Heading error in an alignment-based magnetometer, Proc. SPIE (2011)
• T. Zigdon, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, S. Guttikonda, E. J. Bahr, O. Neitzke, S. M. Rochester, and D. Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in the presence of radio-frequency field, Optics Express 18(25), 25494–25508 (2010)
• Chris Hovde, Brian Patton, Eric Corsini, James Higbie, and Dmitry Budker, Sensitive optical atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Proc. SPIE 7693, 769313 (2010); (arXiv:1003.1531)
• M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, and S. M. Rochester, Light-induced polarization effects in atoms with partially resolved hyperfine structure and applications to absorption, fluorescence, and nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Phys. Rev. A80(5), 053406 (2009). (arXiv:0908.2666)
• D. F. Jackson Kimball, L. R. Jacome, Srikanth Guttikonda, Eric J. Bahr, and Lok Fai Chan, Magnetometric sensitivity optimization for nonlinear optical rotation with frequency-modulated light: Rubidium D2 line,J. Appl. Phys. 106, 063113 (2009). (arXiV:0906.3586)
• K. Jensen, V. M. Acosta, J. M. Higbie, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, and D. Budker, Cancellation of nonlinear Zeeman shifts with light shifts, Phys. Rev. A79(2), 023406 (2009);  also available at the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science;http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2221
• Chris Hovde, Victor M. Acosta, Eric Corsini, James M. Higbie, Micah P. Ledbetter, and Dmitry Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation for sensitive measurement of magnetic fields, in Biomedical Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2008), paper JMA44. 
• V. M. Acosta, M. Auzinsh, W. Gawlik, P. Grisins, J. M. Higbie,  Derek F. Jackson Kimball, L. Krzemien, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Production and detection of atomic hexadecapole at Earth's magnetic field;  Optics Express 16(15), 11423-11430 (2008) ;  Animation of the Experiment F=2->F'=1; Animation of the Experiment F=2->F'=2
• M. P. Ledbetter, I. M. Savukov, V. M. Acosta, D. Budker, and M. V. Romalis, Spin-exchange relaxation free magnetometry with Cs vapor, Phys. Rev. A77(3), 033408 (2008);  http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1012
• Review article: D. Budker and M. V. Romalis, Optical Magnetometry, Nature Physics 3, 227 - 234 (2007); physics/0611246
• S. Pustelny, A. Wojciechowski, M. Kotyrba, K. Sycz, J. Zachorowski, W. Gawlik, A. Cingoz, N. Leefer, J. M. Higbie, E. Corsini, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, All-optical atomic magnetometers based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude modulated light, Proceedings of SPIE 6604 (2007); physics/0610253
• M. P. Ledbetter, V. M. Acosta, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, S. Pustelny, and V. V. Yashchuk, Detection of radio frequency magnetic fields using nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Phys. Rev. A75(2), 023405 (2007); physics/0609196
• J. M. Higbie, E. Corsini, and D. Budker, Robust, High-Speed, All-Optical Atomic Magnetometer, Rev. Sci. Instr. 77(11), 113106 (2006); physics/0609041
• S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, Influence of magnetic-field inhomogeneity on nonlinear magneto-optical resonances, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063406 (2006); physics/0608109; this paper is also available from Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
• S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, D. F. Jackson Kimball, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and W. Gawlik, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with modulated light in tilted magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063420 (2006); physics/0606257; this paper is also available from Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
• V. Acosta, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Jackson-Kimball, D. C. Hovde, W. Gawlik, S. Pustelny, and J. Zachorowski, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light in the geophysical field range, Phys. Rev. A 73, 053404 (2006), physics/0602109
• S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson 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); physics/0511123
• M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, J. Kitching, P. D. D. Schwindt, and J. E. Stalnaker, Magnetometry with millimeter-scale anti-relaxation-coated alkali-metal vapor cells; JOSA B 23(6), 1001 (2006), physics/0511003
• W. Gawlik, L. Krzemien, S. Pustelny, D. Sangla, J. Zachorowski, M. Graf, A.O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation with Amplitude-Modulated Light; Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 131108 (2006), physics/0510207
• Review article: E. B. Alexandrov, M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Dynamic effects in nonlinear magneto-optics of atoms and molecules; in a Special Issue of JOSA B on Nonlinear and Integrated Magneto-Optics; JOSA B 22(1), 7-20 (2005); physics/0405049
• Book chapter: Yu. Malakyan, D. Budker, S. Rochester, D. Kimball, V. Yashchuk and W. Gawlik, Selective Control of High-Order Atomic Coherences, in Decoherence, Entanglement and Information Protection in Complex Quantum Systems, NATO Science Series, v. 189, V.M. Akulin, A. Sarfati, G. Kurizki and S. Pellegrin, Eds.,  pp. 91-104, Springer Netherlands, 2005
• Comment: D. Budker and S. M. Rochester,  A relation between electromagnetically induced absorption resonances and nonlinear magneto-optics in Lambda-systems, Phys. Rev. A 70, 025804 (2004); physics/0310066
• Yu. P. Malakyan, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of frequency-modulated light resonant with a low-J transition, Phys. Rev. A. 69, 013817 (2004). physics/0309061
• V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D.F. Kimball, Yu. P. Malakyan, S.M. Rochester, Selective addressing of high-rank atomic polarization moments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253001 (2003) ; physics/0302079.
• D. Budker, A new spin on magnetometry (Nature News and Views),  Nature 422, 574 (2003).
  
• Review article: D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, A. Weis, Resonant nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atoms; Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 1153 (2002),  physics/0203007
• S.M. Rochester and D. Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in optically thick media, Journal of Modern Optics, 49(14-15), 2543-2553 (2002). physics/0202071
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 65, 055403 (2002).
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Electro-and Magneto-Optical Effects related to Bennett Structures, Phys. Rev. A 65, 033401 (2002).
• S.M. Rochester, D. S. Hsiung, D. Budker, R. Y. Chiao, D.F. Kimball, and V.V. Yashchuk, Self-rotation of resonant elliptically polarized light in collision-free rubidium vapor, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 043814 (2001).
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, New developments in nonlinear optical rotation (ICAP-2000 abstract).
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation via Alignment-to-Orientation Conversion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2088 (2000).
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Sensitive Magnetometry based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation, Phys. Rev. A 62, 043403 (2000).
• D. Budker, R.Y. Chiao, D. S. Hsiung, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear precession of the polarization ellipse in resonant atomic media: two-level systems and Rb (QELS-2000, paper QFC4).
• V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and J. Davis, Laser Frequency Stabilization Using Linear Magneto-Optics, Rev. Sci. Instr. 71(2), 341, 2000.
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear electro-optic effects in resonant atomic media: a novel tool for precision atomic spectroscopy and electromagnetic field measurements (A Proposal), LBNL PUB-5453, Berkeley, California, December, 1999
• D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optics and reduced group velocity of light in atomic vapor with slow ground state relaxation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83(9), 1767 (1999).
• D. Budker, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Magneto-Optic Effects with Ultra-Narrow Widths, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81(26), 5788 (1998).
• V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and M. Zolotorev, Applications of Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Effects with Ultra-Narrow Widths, in: Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics, D.H.E. Dubin and D. Schneider, eds. AIP conference proceedings 457, pp. 177-181.
• D. Budker, D.J. Orlando, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy and Magneto-Optics (Word-97); Am. J. Phys. 67(7), 584 (1999).
• D. Budker, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Resonant Magneto-Optical Rotation: New Twists in an Old Plot (Word-97, PDF, .rtf, or .PS); Sib. J. Phys.1 (1999); see also: Abstract for ICAP-16.

  Detection of magnetic microparticles

• D. Maser, S. Pandey, H. Ring, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Knappe, J. Kitching, and D. Budker, Detection of a single cobalt microparticle with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer, Rev. Sci. Instr. 82, 086112 (2011) (ArXiv:1107.1913)
• S. Xu, M. H. Donaldson, A. Pines, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, and V. V. Yashchuk, Application of atomic magnetometry in magnetic particle detection, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 224105 (2006);  physics/0609197; this paper is also available from the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 

Exotic physics

• Micah Ledbetter, Michael Romalis, Derek Jackson-Kimball,  Constraints on short-range spin-dependent interactions from scalar spin-spin coupling in deuterated molecular hydrogen,  arXiv:1203.6894

• D. F. Jackson Kimball, Alec Boyd, and D. Budker,  Constraints on anomalous spin-spin interactions from spin-exchange collisions, Phys. Rev. A. 82, 062714 (2010) (arXiv:1010.1505)

Sodium laser guide stars (LGS) and mesospheric magnetometry

• S. M. Rochester, A. Otarola, C. Boyer, D. Budker, B. Ellerbroek, R. Holzlöhner, and L. Wang, Modeling of pulsed laser guide stars for the Thirty Meter Telescope project, arXiv:1203.5900
• J. M. Higbie, S. M. Rochester, B. Patton, R. Holzlöhner, D. Bonaccini Calia, D. Budker, Magnetometry with Mesospheric Sodium, PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1013641108 (2011) (arXiv:0912.4310)
• Ronald Holzlöhner, Simon M. Rochester, Thomas Pfrommer, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dmitry Budker, James M. Higbie, and Wolfgang Hackenberg, Laser guide star return flux simulations based on observed sodium density profiles, Proc. SPIE, DOI: 10.1117/12.856721
• R. Holzloehner, S. M. Rochester, D. Bonaccini Calia, D. Budker, J. M. Higbie, and W. Hackenberg, Optimization of cw sodium laser guide star efficiency, Astronomy & Astrophysics AA/2009/13108 (arXiv:0908.1527)
  

NV-diamond: physics and magnetometry

• Micah Ledbetter, Kasper Jensen, Ran Fischer, Andrey Jarmola, and Dmitry Budker, Gyroscopes based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond,  arXiv:1205.0093

• Ran Fischer, Andrey Jarmola, Pauli Kehayias, and Dmitry Budker, Room-temperature optical polarization of nuclear ensembles in diamond, arXiv:1202.1072

  
  

• Chang S. Shin, Claudia E. Avalos, Mark C. Butler, David R. Trease, Scott J. Seltzer, J. Peter Mustonen, Daniel J. Kennedy, Victor M. Acosta, Dmitry Budker, Alexander Pines, and  Vikram S. Bajaj, Room Temperature Operation of a Radiofrequency Diamond Magnetometer near the Shot Noise Limit,  arXiv:1201.3152

• A. Jarmola, V. M. Acosta, K. Jensen, S. Chemerisov, D. Budker, Temperature and magnetic field dependent longitudinal spin relaxation in nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 197601 (2012) (arXiv:1112.5936)
• Dmitry Budker, The sense of colour centres, Nature Physics (News and Views), doi:10.1038/nphys1989 (2011)
• Victor M. Acosta, Andrey Jarmola, Lucas J. Zipp, M. P. Ledbetter, E. Bauch, and Dmitry Budker,  Broadband magnetometry by infrared-absorption detection of diamond NV centers and associated temperature dependence,  Proc. SPIE, DOI: 10.1117/12.872624
• V. M. Acosta, E. Bauch, A. Jarmola, L. J. Zipp, M. P. Ledbetter, and D. Budker, Broadband magnetometry by infrared-absorption detection of diamond NV centers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 174104 (2010); (arXiv:1009.4747)
• V. M. Acosta, A. Jarmola, E. Bauch, and D. Budker, Optical properties of the nitrogen-vacancy singlet levels in diamond,  Phys. Rev. B. 82.201202 (2010) (arXiv:1009.0032)
• C. Kim, V. M. Acosta, E. Bauch, D. Budker, and P. R. Hemmer, Electron Spin Resonance in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond and Ionization Fraction vs. Electron Irradiation Dose (arXiv:0912.5267)
• V. M. Acosta, E. Bauch, M. P. Ledbetter, A. Waxman, L. S. Bouchard,  and D. Budker, Temperature dependence of the nitrogen-vacancy magnetic resonance in diamond, Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 07081 (2010); see also Erratum (http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3938) 
• L.-S. Bouchard, V. M. Acosta, E. Bauch, and D. Budker, Detection of the Meissner Effect with a Diamond Magnetometer, New J. Phys. 13 025017 (2011)
• V. M. Acosta, E. Bauch, M. P. Ledbetter, C. Santori, K.-M. C. Fu, P. E. Barclay, R. G. Beausoleil, H. Linget, J. F. Roch, F. Treussart, S. Chemerisov, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker,  High nitrogen-vacancy density diamonds for magnetometry applications, Phys. Rev. B 80, 115202 (2009) (arXiv:0903.3277)
• J.M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Childress, L. Jiang, D. Budker, P. R. Hemmer, A.Yacoby, R. Walsworth, M. D. Lukin, High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale
  resolution, Nature Physics 4, 810 - 816 (01 Oct 2008), doi: 10.1038/nphys1075, Full text; arXiv:0805.1367

Biomagnetism

• Eric Corsini, Victor Acosta, Nicolas Baddour, James Higbie, Brian Lester, Paul Licht, Brian Patton, Mark Prouty, and Dmitry Budker, Search for plant biomagnetism with a sensitive atomic magnetometer, J. Appl. Phys. 109, 074701 (2011); arXiv:1006.3578

Squeezed light, squeezed spins

• S. M. Rochester, M. P. Ledbetter, T. Zigdon, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, and   D. Budker, Orientation-to-alignment conversion and spin squeezing. Phys. Rev. A 85(2); 022125 (2012); arXiv:1106.3538

• M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, A. O. Sushkov, and V. V. Yashchuk, Can a quantum nondemolition measurement improve the sensitivity of an atomic magnetometer? Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(17), 173002 (2004); physics/0403097 . Details of some calculations are given in the companion note physics/0407125
• A.B. Matsko, I. Novikova, G.R. Welch, D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation, Phys. Rev. A 66, 043815 (2002); quant-ph/0112072

Nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance (and non-resonance), imaging

• D. Budker, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Appelt, L. S. Bouchard, and B. Wojtsekhowski,  Polarized nuclear target based on parahydrogen induced polarization, arXiv:1203.2712
• Micah Ledbetter, Szymon Pustelny, Dmitry Budker, Michael Romalis, John Blanchard, and Alexander Pines, Liquid-state nuclear spin comagnetometers, arXiv:1201.4438
• Thomas Theis, Micah P. Ledbetter, Gwendal Kervern, John W. Blanchard, Paul Ganssle, Mark C. Butler, Hyun D. Shin, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Zero-field NMR enhanced by parahydrogen in reversible exchange, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP,  DOI: 10.1021/ja2112405
• Micah Ledbetter, Thomas Theis, John Blanchard, Hattie Ring, Paul Ganssle, Stephan Appelt, Bernhard Bluemich, Alex Pines, and Dmitry Budker,  Near-zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance,  Phys. Rev. Lett.  107,  107601  (2011); See accompanying Physics Synopsis;  arXiv:1107.1706
• David J. Michalak, Shoujun Xu, Thomas J. Lowery, C. W. Crawford, Micah Ledbetter, Louis-S. Bouchard, David E. Wemmer, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Relaxivity of Gadolinium Complexes Detected by Atomic Magnetometry, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22811,  (2011)
• Thomas Theis, Paul Ganssle, Gwendal Kervern, Svenja Knappe, John Kitching, Micah Ledbetter, Dmitry Budker, Alex Pines, Parahydrogen enhanced zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance; Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys1986 (May 1, 2011);  arxiv:1102.5378
• M.P. Ledbetter, C.W. Crawford, A. Pines, D.E. Wemmer, S. Knappe, J. Kitching, and D. Budker, Optical detection of NMR J-spectra at zero magnetic field, Journal of Magnetic Resonance 199 (2009) 25–29; arXiv:0901.4069
• C. W. Crawford, Shoujun Xu, Eric J. Siegel, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Fluid-flow characterization with nuclear spins without magnetic resonance, Applied Physics Letters 93(9), 092507 (2008).
  
• Shoujun Xu, Elad Harel, David J. Michalak, Charles W. Crawford, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Flow in porous metallic materials: a magnetic resonance imaging study, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 28, 1299-1302 (2008).
• Shoujun Xu, C. W. Crawford, Simon Rochester, Valeriy Yashchuk, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Submillimeter-resolution magnetic resonance imaging at the Earth's magnetic field with an atomic magnetometer, Phys. Rev. A 78(1), 013404 (2008). This paper is also available from the Virtual Journal of  Biological Physics Research.
  
• F. Verpillat, M.  P.  Ledbetter, D. Budker, S. Xu, D. Michalak, C. Hilty, L.-S. Bouchard, S. Antonijevic, and A. Pines, Detection of nuclear magnetic resonance with an anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0712129105, http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2365
• M. P. Ledbetter, I. M. Savukov, D. Budker, V. Shah, S. Knappe, J. Kitching, D. J. Michalak, S. Xu, and A. Pines, Zero-field remote detection of NMR with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0711505105
• S. Xu, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, M. H. Donaldson, and D. Budker, Construction and applications of an atomic magnetic gradiometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 083106 (2006).
• S. Xu, V. V. Yashchuk, M. H. Donaldson, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Magnetic resonance imaging with an optical magnetometer, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 10.1073/pnas.0605396103; see also an article about this work in Chemical&Engineering News, Berkeley Lab Research News, and MIT Technology Review
• V. V. Yashchuk, J. Granwehr, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, A. H. Trabesinger, J. T. Urban, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Hyperpolarized xenon nuclear spins detected by optical atomic magnetometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(16), 160801 (2004); physics/0404090.
• D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, J. T. Urban, Alignment-to-orientation conversion and nuclear quadrupole resonance, Chem. Phys. Lett. 378(3-4), 440-448 (2003).

Atomic spectroscopy at low temperatures; electro-optics of cryogenic liquids

• A. O. Sushkov, D. Budker, Production of long-lived atomic vapor inside high-density buffer gas, Phys. Rev. A 77, 042707 (2008) (http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1743)
• A. O. Sushkov, E. Williams, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and S. K.Lamoreaux, Kerr effect in liquid helium at temperatures below the superfluid transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 153003 (2004); physics/0403143
• V.V. Yashchuk, A.O. Sushkov, D. Budker, E.R. Lee, I.T. Lee, M.L. Perl, Production of dry powder clots using a piezoelectric drop generator; Rev. Sci. Instr. 73(6), 2331 (2002).

Condensed-matter EDM experiments

• D. Budker, The Universe in a solid design, Nature Materials 9, 608-609 (2010)
• L.-S. Bouchard, A. O. Sushkov, D. Budker, J. J. Ford, A. S. Lipton,  Nuclear-spin relaxation of ²⁰⁷Pb in ferroelectric powders, Phys. Rev. A 77(2), 022102 (2008); http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1392
• D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. O. Sushkov, and O. P. Sushkov, On the sensitivity of condensed-matter P- and T-violation experiments, Phys. Rev. A 73, 022107 (2006); cond-mat/0511153

Spectroscopy of samarium

• S.M. Rochester, C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, and M. Zolotorev, Measurement of Lifetimes and Tensor Polarizabilities of Odd Parity States of Sm I, Phys. Rev. A. 59(5), 3480 (1999).

Spectroscopy of silver

• T. Karaulanov, B. K. Park, D. Budker, and A. O. Sushkov, Pressure broadening and shift of D1 line of Ag by He, Ar and N2,  arXiv:1201.3430

Spectroscopy of barium

• M. G. Kozlov, D. Budker, and D. English, Hyperfine-interaction- and magnetic-field-induced Bose-Einstein-statistics suppressed two-photon transitions, Phys. Rev. A 80(4), 042504 (2009), arXiv:0907.3727
• C.-H. Li and D. Budker, Polarization dependent photoionization cross-sections and radiative lifetimes of atomic states in Ba, Phys. Rev. A, 74, 012512 (2006), physics/0602189
• C.H. Li, S.M. Rochester, M.G. Kozlov, and D. Budker, Unusually large polarizabilities and "new" atomic states in Ba, Phys. Rev. A 69, 042507 (2004), physics/0307060 (this is a more detailed version than the PRA)

Tests of quantum statistics

• Damon English, Valeriy V. Yashchuk, and Dmitry Budker, Spectroscopic test of Bose-Einstein statistics for photons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104(25), 253604 (2010); (arXiv:1001.1771)
• D. DeMille, D. Budker, N. Derr, and E. Deveney, Search for Exchange-Antisymmetric Two-Photon States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83(20), 3978 (1999).
• D. DeMille, D. Budker, N. Derr, and E. Deveney, How we know that photons are bosons: experimental tests of spin-statistics for photons, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Tests and Theoretical Implications, Anacapri, Italy, May 31-June 3, 2000, R. C. Hilborn and G. M. Tino, Eds., AIP Conf. Procs. #545, 2000, p. 227.
• D. English, D. Budker, and D. DeMille, Towards an improved test of Bose-Einstein statistics for photons, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Tests and Theoretical Implications, Anacapri, Italy, May 31-June 3, 2000, R. C. Hilborn and G. M. Tino, Eds., AIP Conf. Procs. #545, 2000, p. 281.

Optics

• C. Lee, G. Z. Iwata, E. Corsini, J. M. Higbie, S. Knappe, M. P. Ledbetter, D. Budker, Small-sized dichroic atomic vapor laser lock (DAVLL), Rev. Sci. Instr. 82, 043107 (2011), arXiv:1012.3522
• B. K. Park, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Precision polarimetry with real-time mitigation of optical-window birefringence, Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 013108 (2008), http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2110
• I. Savukov and D. Budker, Waveplate retarders based on overhead transparencies, Applied Optics, 46(22), 5129-5136 (2007), physics/0702225
• A. O. Sushkov, E. Williams, and D. Budker, On the transmission of light through tilted interference filters, physics/0504176.
• D. Budker, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Obtaining Frequency Markers of Variable Separation with a Spherical Mirror Fabry-Perot Interferometer, Rev. Sci. Instr. 71(8), 2984 (2000).
• K. Kerner, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Variable Free Spectral Range Spherical Mirror Fabry-Perot Interferometer, physics/0306144.

Miscellaneous Papers

• Nathaniel B. Phillips, Irina Novikova, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Dmitry Budker, and Simon Rochester,  Controllable steep dispersion with gain in a four-level N-scheme with four-wave mixing, arXiv:1205.2567 

• Dmitry Budker and Jean-Claude Diels, Erwin@90 (a tribute to Erwin L. Hahn on the occasion of his 90th birthday), reproduced from the EPR newsletter 21(2), 6-7 (2011) (www.epr-newsletter.ethz.ch)  with permission from the International EPR(ESR) Society

• M. V. Balabas, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Rubidium "whiskers" in a vapor cell, Nature Physics 3, 2 (2007); physics/0611250
• M. Stewart Siu and Dmitry Budker, Solidification pipes: from solder pots to igneous rocks, physics/9911057.
• S.M. Rochester and D. Budker, Atomic Polarization Visualized, Am. Journ. Phys. 69(3), (2001). Animated examples
• D. Budker, Electrons in a Shell (Word-97), Am. Journ. Phys. 66(7), 572 (1998).
• D. Budker, Some rules of good scientific writing, Berkeley Scientific Journal 12(2), Article 11, (2009); physics/0608246