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Searches for Lorentz violation in 3He/129Xe clock comparison experiments

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We discuss the design and performance of a very sensitive low-field magnetometer based on the detection of free spin precession of gaseous, nuclear polarized 3He or 129Xe samples with a SQUID as magnetic flux detector. Characteristic spin precession times \(T_2^\ast\) of up to 115 h were measured in low magnetic fields (about 1 μT) and in the regime of motional narrowing. With the detection of the free precession of co-located 3He/129Xe nuclear spins (clock comparison), the device can be used as ultra-sensitive probe for non-magnetic spin interactions, since the magnetic dipole interaction (Zeeman-term) drops out in the weighted frequency difference, i.e., Δω = ω He  − γ He /γ Xe ·ω Xe . We report on searches for Lorentz violating signatures by monitoring the Larmor frequencies of co-located 3He/129Xe spin samples as the laboratory reference frame rotates with respect to distant stars (sidereal modulation).

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    F. Allmendinger & U. Schmidt

  2. Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, 10587, Germany

    M. Burghoff, W. Kilian, S. Knappe-Grüneberg, W. Müller, A. Schnabel, F. Seifert & L. Trahms

  3. Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, 55099, Germany

    W. Heil, S. Karpuk, Yu Sobolev & K. Tullney

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The 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2012), Groningen, The Netherlands, 18–22 June 2012.

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Allmendinger, F., Burghoff, M., Heil, W. et al. Searches for Lorentz violation in 3He/129Xe clock comparison experiments. Hyperfine Interact 215, 15–23 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-013-0785-x

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