Limes M E, Sheng D, Romalis M V
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Jan 19;120(3):033401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.033401.
We describe a ^{3}He-^{129}Xe comagnetometer using ^{87}Rb atoms for noble-gas spin polarization and detection. We use a train of ^{87}Rb π pulses and σ^{+}/σ^{-} optical pumping to realize a finite-field Rb magnetometer with suppression of spin-exchange relaxation. We suppress frequency shifts from polarized Rb by measuring the ^{3}He and ^{129}Xe spin precession frequencies in the dark, while applying π pulses along two directions to depolarize Rb atoms. The plane of the π pulses is rotated to suppress the Bloch-Siegert shifts for the nuclear spins. We measure the ratio of ^{3}He to ^{129}Xe spin precession frequencies with sufficient absolute accuracy to resolve Earth's rotation without changing the orientation of the comagnetometer. A frequency resolution of 7 nHz is achieved after integration for 8 h without evidence of significant drift.
我们描述了一种利用(^{87}Rb)原子实现稀有气体自旋极化和检测的(^{3}He - ^{129}Xe)共磁强计。我们使用一系列(^{87}Rb)π脉冲和(\sigma^{+}/\sigma^{-})光泵浦来实现具有自旋交换弛豫抑制功能的有限场(Rb)磁强计。通过在黑暗中测量(^{3}He)和(^{129}Xe)自旋进动频率,同时沿两个方向施加π脉冲使(Rb)原子退极化,我们抑制了来自极化(Rb)的频率偏移。旋转π脉冲的平面以抑制核自旋的布洛赫 - 西格特位移。我们以足够高的绝对精度测量(^{3}He)与(^{129}Xe)自旋进动频率的比值,从而在不改变共磁强计方向的情况下分辨地球的自转。在积分8小时后实现了7 nHz的频率分辨率,且没有明显漂移的迹象。