Nuclear Spin Squeezing Based on Spin-Exchange Collisions

Abstract:Isolation from environment leads to the days-long lifetime of noble-gas nuclear spins, but also brings great challenges to the preparation, manipulation, and measurement of nuclear-spin quantum states. Here we find that nuclear spin squeezing, with ultra-long lifetime and huge atomic number, can be efficiently obtained and manipulated based on the coherent spin-exchange interaction between alkali-metal and noble-gas ensembles. Thanks to the considerable advantage of our proposal in preparing the spin squeezing of the macroscopic atomic ensemble with a huge atomic number, even the nuclear spin-squeezed state containing 10^20 atoms or more is obtainable with preexisting techniques. Further, the days-long storage and measurement of nuclear spin squeezing can be performed by the coherent manipulation of a magnetic field. This proposal can be implemented in hot atomic ensembles, whose ease of access and high adaptability to various environments will significantly facilitate the research and application of nuclear-spin nonclassical states in precision measurement, quantum information, and fundamental physics.

arXiv:2607.29046 [quant-ph]

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Phys.Rev.A 114,013725 (2026)

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