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Atomic clocks with suppressed blackbody radiation shift

Atomic Physics 2014-12-02 v2 Optics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We develop a nonstandard concept of atomic clocks where the blackbody radiation shift (BBRS) and its temperature fluctuations can be dramatically suppressed (by one to three orders of magnitude) independent of the environmental temperature. The suppression is based on the fact that in a system with two accessible clock transitions (with frequencies v1 and v2) which are exposed to the same thermal environment, there exists a "synthetic" frequency v_{syn} (v1-e12 v2) largely immune to the BBRS. As an example, it is shown that in the case of ion 171Yb+ it is possible to create a clock in which the BBRS can be suppressed to the fractional level of 10^{-18} in a broad interval near room temperature (300\pm 15 K). We also propose a realization of our method with the use of an optical frequency comb generator stabilized to both frequencies v1 and v2. Here the frequency v_{syn} is generated as one of the components of the comb spectrum and can be used as an atomic standard.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0760,
  title  = {Atomic clocks with suppressed blackbody radiation shift},
  author = {V. I. Yudin and A. V. Taichenachev and M. V. Okhapkin and S. N. Bagayev and Chr. Tamm and E. Peik and N. Huntemann and T. E. Mehlstaubler and F. Riehle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0760},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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