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We used a Cs atomic fountain frequency standard to measure the Stark shift on the ground state hyperfine transiton frequency in cesium (9.2 GHz) due to the electric field generated by the blackbody radiation. The measures relative shift at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Levi , D. Calonico , L. Lorini , S. Micalizio , A. Godone

Fiber-based remote comparison of $^{87}$Sr lattice clocks in 24 km distant laboratories is demonstrated. The instability of the comparison reaches $5\times10^{-16}$ over an averaging time of 1000 s, which is two orders of magnitude shorter…

We report on an improved systematic evaluation of the JILA SrI optical lattice clock, achieving a nearly identical systematic uncertainty compared to the previous strontium accuracy record set by the JILA SrII optical lattice clock (OLC) at…

Recently, p-wave cold collisions were shown to dominate the density-dependent shift of the clock transition frequency in a 171Yb optical lattice clock. Here we demonstrate that by operating such a system at the proper excitation fraction,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-12-14 A. D. Ludlow , N. D. Lemke , J. A. Sherman , C. W. Oates , G. Quemener , J. von Stecher , A. M. Rey

We measure the differential polarizability of the $^{176}$Lu$^+$ $^1S_0$ -to- ${^3}D_1$ clock transition at multiple wavelengths. This experimentally characterizes the differential dynamic polarizability for frequencies up to 372 THz and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 K. J. Arnold , R. Kaewuam , T. R. Tan , S. G. Porsev , M. S. Safronova , M. D. Barrett

We report our measurement of the rate of change of period with time dP/dt for the 215 s periodicity in the pulsating white dwarf G 117-B15A, the most stable optical clock known. After 31 years of observations, we have finally obtained a 4…

We experimentally and theoretically determine the magic wavelength of the (5$s^2$)$^{1}S_{0}$$-$(5$s$5$p$)$^{3}P_{0}$ clock transition of $^{111}$Cd to be 419.88(14) nm and 420.1(7) nm. To perform Lamb-Dicke spectroscopy of the clock…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 A. Yamaguchi , M. S. Safronova , K. Gibble , H. Katori

The quadratic Zeeman shift coefficient of 3P0 clock state for strontium is determined in theory and experiment. In theory, we derived the expression of the quadratic Zeeman shift of 3P0 clock state for 88Sr and 87Sr in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Benquan Lu , Xiaotong Lu , Jiguang Li , Hong Chang

We studied the pc-scale core shift effect using radio light curves for three blazars, S5 0716+714, 3C 279 and BL Lacertae, which were monitored at five frequencies ($\nu$) between 4.8 GHz and 36.8 GHz using the University of Michigan Radio…

We have calculated static and dynamic electric dipole (E1) polarizabilities ($\alpha_F$) of the hyperfine levels of the clock transition precisely in $^{133}$Cs. The scalar, vector, and tensor components of $\alpha_F$ are estimated by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 A. Chakraborty , B. K. Sahoo

We report on a measurement of the highly forbidden $6s^2 ^1S_0 \to 5d6s ^3 D_1$ magnetic-dipole transition in atomic ytterbium using the Stark-interference technique. This amplitude is important in interpreting a future parity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Stalnaker , D. Budker , D. P. DeMille , S. J. Freedman , V. V. Yashchuk

We consider a narrow magneto-dipole transition in the $^{169}$Tm atom at the wavelength of $1.14\,\mu$m as a candidate for a 2D optical lattice clock. Calculating dynamic polarizabilities of the two clock levels $[\text{Xe}]4f^{13}6s^2…

Improvements in atom-light coherence are foundational to progress in quantum information science, quantum optics, and precision metrology. Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence due to the…

The correction to the hydrogen Lamb shift due to the proton electric and magnetic polarizabilities is expressed analytically through their static values, which are known from experiment. The numerical value of the correction to the hydrogen…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. B. Khriplovich , R. A. Sen'kov

We report the implementation of a general-order relativistic coupled-cluster method for performing high-precision calculations of atomic and molecular properties. As a first application, the static dipole polarizabilities of the ground and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mihaly Kallay , B. K. Sahoo , H. S. Nataraj , B. P. Das , Lucas Visscher

Optical lattice clocks are the prospective devices that can probe many subtle physics including temporal variation of the fine structure constant ($\alpha_e$). These studies necessitate high-precision measurements of atomic clock frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Zhi-Ming Tang , Yan-mei Yu , B. K. Sahoo , Chen-Zhong Dong , Yang Yang , Yaming Zou

With the uncertainty of the optical clocks improving to the order of 10-18, the probe light used to detect the clock transition has demonstrated nonnegligible Stark shift, provoking to precisely evaluate this shift. Here, we demonstrate a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 Qinfang Xu , Xiaotong Lu , Jingjing Xia , Yebing Wang , Hong Chang

We study the $^1$S$_0 - ^3$D$_2$ and $^1$S$_0 - ^3$D$_3$ transitions in Cu II and the $^1$S$_0 - ^3$P$^{\rm o}_2$ transition in Yb III as possible candidates for the optical clock transitions. A recently developed version of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Saleh O. Allehabi , V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum

We demonstrate a one-dimensional optical lattice clock with a spin-polarized fermionic isotope designed to realize a collision-shift-free atomic clock with neutral atom ensembles. To reduce systematic uncertainties, we developed both Zeeman…

Time and frequency are the most accurately measurable quantities, providing foundations for science and modern technologies. The accuracy relies on the SI (Syst\'eme International) second that refers to Cs microwave clocks with fractional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 Ichiro Ushijima , Masao Takamoto , Manoj Das , Takuya Ohkubo , Hidetoshi Katori