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Ramsey spectroscopy, a fundamental tool in both basic science and practical applications, is inevitably subject to several detrimental effects. % Here we propose a symmetry-protected destructive many-body interferometry (SPDMBI) for Ramsey…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Sijie Chen , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

We develop a method of spectroscopy that uses a weak static magnetic field to enable direct optical excitation of forbidden electric-dipole transitions that are otherwise prohibitively weak. The power of this scheme is demonstrated using…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin , C. W. Oates , C. W. Hoyt , Z. W. Barber , L. Hollberg

We proposed a spectroscopic method that extends Ramsey's atomic spectroscopy to detect the transition frequency of a qubit fabricated on a superconducting circuit. The method uses a multi-interval train of qubit biases to implement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yan Zhang , Tiantian Huan , Ri-gui Zhou , Hou Ian

Comparisons of high-accuracy optical atomic clocks \cite{Ludlow2015} are essential for precision tests of fundamental physics \cite{Safronova2018}, relativistic geodesy \cite{McGrew2018, Grotti2018, Delva2019}, and the anticipated…

We present a novel method for engineering an optical clock transition that is robust against external field fluctuations and is able to overcome limits resulting from field inhomogeneities. The technique is based on the application of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Nati Aharon , Nicolas Spethmann , Ian D. Leroux , Piet O. Schmidt , Alex Retzker

We present a coherent-population trapping (CPT) microcell atomic clock using symmetric auto-balanced Ramsey (SABR) spectroscopy. The pulsed SABR sequence is applied through direct current-based power modulation of the vertical-cavity…

Positronium and muonium, as purely leptonic atoms without internal structure, provide ideal systems for high-precision tests of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and measurements of fundamental constants. However, the high velocities of these…

Compact optical atomic clocks have become increasingly important in field applications and clock networks. Systems based on Ramsey-Borde interferometry (RBI) with a thermal atomic beam seem promising to fill a technology gap in optical…

Hyper-Ramsey protocols effectively reduce AC-Stark shifts in probing ultra-narrow optical clock transitions but they remain sensitive to laser intensity noise, decoherence, frequency drifts, and low-frequency perturbations. We address these…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 T. Zanon-Willette , B. Ilikj , D. Wilkowski , B. Darquié , N. V. Vitanov

We demonstrate precision measurement and control of inhomogeneous broadening in a multi-ion clock consisting of three $^{176}$Lu$^+$ ions. Microwave spectroscopy between hyperfine states in the $^3D_1$ level is used to characterise…

Laser decoherence limits the stability of optical clocks by broadening the observable resonance linewidths and adding noise during the dead time between clock probes. Correlation spectroscopy avoids these limitations by measuring correlated…

We report on the direct observation of resonant electric dipole-dipole interactions in a cubic array of atoms in the many-excitation limit. The interactions, mediated by single-atom couplings to the shared electromagnetic vacuum, are shown…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Ross B. Hutson , William R. Milner , Lingfeng Yan , Jun Ye , Christian Sanner

We calculate the shift, due to interatomic interactions, of an optical transition in an atomic Fermi gas trapped in an optical lattice, as in recent experiments of Campbell {\it et al.}, Science {\bf 324}, 360 (2009). Using a pseudospin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-01-11 Zhenhua Yu , C. J. Pethick

We investigate the influence of atomic motion on precision Rabi spectroscopy of ultracold fermionic atoms confined in a deep, one dimensional (1D) optical lattice. We analyze the spectral components of longitudinal sideband spectra and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-27 S. Blatt , J. W. Thomsen , G. K. Campbell , A. D. Ludlow , M. D. Swallows , M. J. Martin , M. M. Boyd , Jun Ye

Frequency metrology is a cornerstone of modern precision measurements and optical atomic clocks have emerged as the most precise measurement devices. In this progress report, we explore various Ramsey interrogation schemes tailored to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Timm Kielinski , Klemens Hammerer

We implement imaging spectroscopy of the optical clock transition of lattice-trapped degenerate fermionic Sr in the Mott-insulating regime, combining micron spatial resolution with submillihertz spectral precision. We use these tools to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 G. Edward Marti , Ross B. Hutson , Akihisa Goban , Sara L. Campbell , Nicola Poli , Jun Ye

An ultrastable optical clock based on neutral atoms trapped in an optical lattice is proposed. Complete control over the light shift is achieved by employing the $5s^2 {}^1S_0 \to 5s5p {}^3P_0$ transition of ${}^{87}{\rm Sr}$ atoms as a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hidetoshi Katori , Masao Takamoto , V. G. Pal'chikov , V. D. Ovsiannikov

We present a compact atomic clock interrogating ultracold 87Rb magnetically trapped on an atom chip. Very long coherence times sustained by spin self-rephasing allow us to interrogate the atomic transition with 85% contrast at 5 s Ramsey…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Ramon Szmuk , Vincent Dugrain , Wilfried Maineult , Jakob Reichel , Peter Rosenbusch

We present a Ramsey-type atom interferometer operating with an optically trapped sample of 10^6 Bose-condensed Rb-87 atoms. The optical trap allows us to couple the |F =1, mF =0>\rightarrow |F =2, mF =0> clock states using a single photon…

Singly-ionized ytterbium, with ultra-narrow optical clock transitions at 467 nm and 436 nm, is a convenient system for the realization of optical atomic clocks and tests of present-day variation of fundamental constants. We present the…