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A technique is demonstrated that allows free space atomic fountain clocks and interferometers to utilize optical cavity generated spin-squeezed states with over $390\,000$ ${}^{87}\text{Rb}$ atoms. Fluorescence imaging is used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Benjamin K. Malia , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Yunfan Wu , Onur Hosten , Mark A. Kasevich

We discuss the feasibility to realize a space cold atom clock with counter-propagating cold atoms in microgravity. The design of the space clock is based on atomic beam clock with a Ramsey cavity, except a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-02-19 Desheng Lv , Bin Wang , Tang Li , Liang Liu

Atomic clocks play a crucial role in timekeeping, communications, and navigation systems. Recent efforts enabled by heterogeneous MEMS integration have led to the commercial introduction of Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC) with a volume of…

CMOS-compatible Kerr microcombs have drawn substantial interest as mass-manufacturable, compact alternatives to bulk frequency combs. This could enable deployment of many comb-reliant applications previously confined to laboratories.…

We demonstrate sub-recoil Sisyphus cooling using the long-lived $^{3}\mathrm{P}_{0}$ clock state in alkaline-earth-like ytterbium. A 1388 nm optical standing wave nearly resonant with the…

The environmental perturbation on atoms is the key factor restricting the performance of atomic frequency standards, especially in long term scale. In this letter, we demonstrate a real-time noise distinguish operation of atomic clocks. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Richang Dong , Jinda Lin , Rong Wei , Wenli Wang , Fan Zou , Yuanbo Du , Tingting Chen , Yuzhu Wang

We present a compact atomic clock using cold rubidium atoms based on an isotropic light cooling, a Ramsey microwave interrogation and an absorption detection. Its technology readiness level is suitable to industrial transfer. We use a fibre…

Questioning the presumably most basic assumptions about the structure of space and time has revolutionized our understanding of Nature. State-of-the-art atomic clocks make it possible to precisely test fundamental symmetry properties of…

Reducing the size and complexity of high-performance timekeeping devices is an ever-growing need for various applications, such as 6G wireless technology, positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), Internet of Things (IoT), and ultrafast…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Qiang Hao , Shaojie Yang , Peter Yun , Jun Ruan , Shougang Zhang

Differential light shifts (DLS) induced by optical trapping fields fundamentally limit the stability and accuracy of trapped-atom microwave clocks. We demonstrate an in-situ method to cancel DLS by simultaneously interrogating multiple…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Jan Simon Haase , Alexander Fieguth , Igor Bröckel , Jens Kruse , Carsten Klempt

The Stark shift of the ytterbium optical clock transition due to room temperature blackbody radiation is dominated by a static Stark effect, which was recently measured to high accuracy [J. A. Sherman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 153002…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 K. Beloy , J. A. Sherman , N. D. Lemke , N. Hinkley , C. W. Oates , A. D. Ludlow

We designed an FPGA fabric to provide phase modulation techniques to lock lasers to optical frequency references. The method incorporates an active residual-amplitude-modulation (RAM) suppression scheme that relies on complex modulation.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Tin Nghia Nguyen , Thomas R. Schibli

We develop the method of Ramsey spectroscopy with the use of an additional field compensating the frequency shifts of clock optical transitions. This method in combination with the method of magnetically induced excitation of strongly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin , C. W. Oates , Z. W. Barber , L. Hollberg

We report calculations designed to assess the ultimate precision of an atomic clock based on the 578 nm $6 ^1S_0 --> 6 ^3P^o_0$ transition in Yb atoms confined in an optical lattice trap. We find that this transition has a natural linewidth…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergey Porsev , Andrei Derevianko , Norval Fortson

Squeezed many-body states of atoms are a valuable resource for high precision frequency metrology and could tremendously boost the performance of atomic lattice clocks. Here, we theoretically demonstrate a viable approach to spin squeezing…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 L. I. R. Gil , R. Mukherjee , E. M. Bridge , M. P. A. Jones , T. Pohl

Atomic clocks based on optical transitions are the most stable, and therefore precise, timekeepers available. These clocks operate by alternating intervals of atomic interrogation with dead time required for quantum state preparation and…

The paper describes the results achieved in the development of the compact transportable fully automated optical clock based on a single 171Yb+ ion in a radiofrequency (RF) quadrupole trap. The resulted measurements demonstrated the 4.9E-16…

We describe a collective state atomic clock with Ramsey fringes narrowed by a factor of $\sqrt{N}$ compared to a conventional clock, N being the number of non-interacting atoms, without violating the uncertainty relation. This narrowing is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 May E. Kim , Resham Sarkar , Renpeng Fang , Selim M. Shahriar

We report an s-wave collisional frequency shift of an atomic clock based on fermions. In contrast to bosons, the fermion clock shift is insensitive to the population difference of the clock states, set by the first pulse area in Ramsey…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Eric L. Hazlett , Yi Zhang , Ronald W. Stites , Kurt Gibble , Kenneth M. O'Hara

We search for ultralight scalar dark matter candidates that induce oscillations of the fine structure constant, the electron and quark masses, and the quantum chromodynamics energy scale with frequency comparison data between an $^{171}$Yb…