Université de Fribourg

Suppression of spin-exchange relaxation in tilted magnetic fields within the geophysical range

Scholtes, Theo ; Pustelny, Szymon ; Fritzsche, Stephan ; Schultze, Volkmar ; Stolz, Ronny ; Meyer, Hans-Georg

In: Physical Review A, 2016, vol. 94, no. 1, p. 13403

We present a detailed experimental and theoretical study on the relaxation of spin coherence due to the spin-exchange mechanism arising in the electronic ground states of alkali-metal vapor atoms. As opposed to the well-explored formation of a stretched state in a longitudinal geometry (magnetic field parallel to the laser propagation direction) we employ adapted hyperfine-selective optical...