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L. R. Grisham

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Long spin-1/2 noble gas coherence times in mm-sized anodically bonded batch-fabricated $^{3}$He-$^{129}$Xe-$^{87}$Rb cells

As the only stable spin-1/2 noble gas isotopes, $^{3}$He and $^{129}$Xe are promising systems for inertial rotation sensing and searches for exotic spin couplings. Spin-1/2 noble gases have intrinsic coherence times on the order of hours to days, which allows for incredibly low frequency error of free-precession measurements. However relaxation in miniature cells is dominated by interactions with the cell wall, which limits the performance of a chip-scale sensor that uses noble gases. While $^{129}$Xe wall relaxation times have previously been limited to 10's of seconds in mm-sized cells, we demonstrate the first anodically bonded batch-fabricated cells with dual $^{3}$He-$^{129}$Xe isotopes and $^{87}$Rb in a 6~mm$^3$ volume with $^{3}$He and $^{129}$Xe $T_2$ coherence times of, respectively, 4 h and 300 s. We use these microfabricated cells in a dual noble-gas comagnetometer and discuss its limits.

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Dipolar and scalar $^3$He and $^{129}$Xe frequency shifts in mm-sized cells

We describe a $^{3}$He-$^{129}$Xe comagnetometer operating in stemless anodically bonded cells with a 6 mm$^3$ volume and a $^{129}$Xe spin coherence time of 300 sec. We use a $^{87}$Rb pulse-train magnetometer with co-linear pump and probe beams to study the nuclear spin frequency shifts caused by spin polarization of $^{3}$He. By systematically varying the cell geometry in a batch cell fabrication process we can separately measure the cell shape dependent and independent frequency shifts. We find that a certain aspect ratio of the cylindrical cell can cancel the effects of $^3$He magnetization that limit the stability of vapor-cell comagnetometers. Using this control we also observe for the first time a scalar $^{3}$He-$^{129}$Xe collisional frequency shift characterized by an enhancement factor $Îș_{\text{HeXe}} = -0.011\pm0.001$.

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