Wilson, N.Perrella, C.Anderson, R.Luiten, A.Light, P.2025-08-052025-08-052020Physical Review Research, 2020; 2(1):013213-1-013213-92643-15642643-1564https://hdl.handle.net/2440/146509We develop and demonstrate a new protocol that allows sensing of magnetic fields in an extra-ordinary regime for atomic magnetometry. Until now, the demonstrated bandwidth for atomic magnetometry has been constrained to be slower than the natural precession of atomic spins in a magnetic field—the Larmor frequency. We demonstrate an approach that tracks the instantaneous phase of atomic spins to measure arbitrarily modulated magnetic fields with frequencies up to 50 times higher than the Larmor frequency. By accessing this regime, we demonstrate magnetic-field measurements across four decades in frequency up to 400 kHz, over three orders of magnitude wider than conventional atomic magnetometers. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our protocol can linearly detect transient fields 100-fold higher in amplitude than conventional methods. We highlight the bandwidth and dynamic range of the technique by measuring a magnetic field with a broad and dynamical spectrum.enPublished by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.protocols; new protocol; sensing of magnetic fields; magnetic fields; atomic magnetometry.Journal article10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013213524292Wilson, N. [0000-0002-4849-7517]Perrella, C. [0000-0002-6140-9323]Luiten, A. [0000-0001-5284-7244]Light, P. [0000-0003-3873-7991]