We describe a home-built pneumatic shuttle suitable for the fast displacement
of samples in the vicinity of a highly sensitive atomic magnetometer. The
samples are magnetized at 1 T using a Halbach assembly of magnets. The device
enables the remote detection of free induction decay in ultra-low-field and
zero-field NMR experiments, in relaxometric measurements and in other
applications involving the displacement of magnetized samples within time
intervals as short as a few tens of milliseconds. Other possible applications
of fast sample shuttling exist in radiological studies, where samples have to
be irradiated and then analyzed in a 'cold' environment.Comment: 3 pages and 3 figures; 2 additional pages (2 figures) as a
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