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Many-particle optical lattice clocks have the potential for unprecedented measurement precision and stability due to their low quantum projection noise. However, this potential has so far never been realized because clock stability has been…

The loop-gap resonator (LGR) was originally developed to provide a uniform microwave magnetic field on a sample for electron spin resonance (ESR) experiments. The LGR is composed of one or more loops and gaps acting as inductances and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Matthew M. Libersky , Daniel M. Silevitch , Ammar Kouki

Optical lattice clocks are at the forefront of frequency metrology. Both the instability and systematic uncertainty of these clocks have been reported to be two orders of magnitude smaller than the best microwave clocks. For this reason, a…

We present an analysis of the different types of noise from the detection and interrogation laser in our strontium lattice clock. We develop a noise model showing that in our setup quantum projection noise--limited detection is possible if…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Ali Al-Masoudi , Sören Dörscher , Sebastian Häfner , Uwe Sterr , Christian Lisdat

We report a frequency measurement of the 1S0-3P0 transition of 87Sr atoms in an optical lattice clock. The frequency is determined to be 429 228 004 229 879 (5) Hz with a fractional uncertainty that is comparable to state-of-the-art optical…

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 propose a new method to reduce the frequency noise of a Local Oscillator (LO) to the level of white phase noise by maintaining (not destroying by projective measurement) the coherence of the ensemble pseudo-spin of atoms over many…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Nobuyasu Shiga , Makoto Takeuchi

In this paper, we present a realisation of an on chip atomic clock using a cold cloud of Rubidium 87 atoms. This clock is based on a Ramsey interferometer with a Ramsey time around 600 ms. This is realized with large lab temperature drift…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 M. Dupont-Nivet , B. Wirtschafter , S. Hello , C. I. Westbrook

We stabilise a microwave oscillator at 9.6 GHz to an optical clock laser at 344 THz by using a fibre-based femtosecond laser frequency comb as a transfer oscillator. With a second frequency comb we measure independently the instability of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 B. Lipphardt , G. Grosche , U. Sterr , Chr. Tamm , S. Weyers , H. Schnatz

The coherent population trapping (CPT) atomic clock is very promising for use in next-generation spaceborne applications owing to its compactness and high performance. In this paper, we propose and implement a CPT atomic clock based on the…

Optical lattice clocks with uncertainty and instability in the $10^{-17}$-range and below have so far been demonstrated exclusively using fermions. Here, we demonstrate a bosonic optical lattice clock with $3\times 10^{-18}$ instability and…

A recent proposal describes space based gravitational wave (GW) detection with optical lattice atomic clocks [Kolkowitz et. al., Phys. Rev. D 94, 124043 (2016)] [1]. Based on their setup, we propose a new measurement method for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-15 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

Experiments aimed at quantifying the interface between quantum and classical physics necessarily require a high degree of isolation from the environment: wavefunction collapse and quantum gravity effects at laboratory scales are predicted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 M. Arrayás , J. L. Trueba , C. Uriarte , J. Clothier , C. C. E. Elmy , R. Schanen , D. E. Zmeev , Š. Midlik

We experimentally demonstrated that the stability of an atomic clock improves at fastest rate $\tau^{-1}$ (where $\tau$ is the averaging time) when the phase of a local oscillator is genuinely compared to the continuous phase of many atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Nobuyasu Shiga , Michiaki Mizuno , Kohta Kido , Piyaphat Phoonthong , Kunihiro Okada

We report on the realization of a new compact strontium optical clock using a 2-D magneto-optical-trap (2D-MOT) as cold atomic source and a multi-wavelength cavity as the frequency stabilization system. All needed optical frequencies are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Matteo Barbiero , Davide Calonico , Filippo Levi , Marco G. Tarallo

We study the magnetic-field-induced frequency shift (MFS) of the clock (``0--0'') transition in coherent-population-trapping (CPT) microwave atomic clock. It is shown that the use of the Pound-Drever-Hall-like (PDH) technique for frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Denis Brazhnikov , Vladislav Vishnyakov , Mikhail Skvortsov

This work reviews the topic of rotation sensing with compact cold atom interferometers. A representative set of compact free-falling cold atom gyroscopes is considered because, in different respects, they establish a rotation-measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Carlos L. Garrido Alzar

We explore the feasibility of a compact high-precision Hg atomic clock based on a hollow core optical fiber. We evaluate the sensitivity of the $^1S_0$-$^3P_0$ clock transition in Hg and other divalent atoms to the fiber inner core surface…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Ekaterina Ilinova , James F. Babb , Andrei Derevianko

The endohedral fullerene $^{15}\mathrm{N@C}_{60}$ has narrow electron paramagnetic resonance lines which have been proposed as the basis for a condensed-matter portable atomic clock. We measure the low-frequency spectrum of this molecule,…

We report on the possibility to obtain a high-quality inverted Doppler-free resonance in D1 line of alkali-metal atoms in the single-frequency regime. The counter-propagating optical fields with linear and mutually orthogonal polarizations…