Investigation of the () Clock Transition in Atoms
Creators
- 1. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
Description
High-precision atomic spectroscopy provides an invaluable and sensitive tool for exploring a wide range of physical questions. Here, we investigate the forbidden optical transition of the () in atoms at the wavelength of 1695 nm, which exhibits the highest sensitivity to the variation of the fine-structure constant compared to the current neutral optical clock. We obtain high-resolution transition spectroscopy in a one-dimensional optical lattice, and the measurement of its absolute frequency achieves kHz-level accuracy. Meanwhile, several essential atomic constants are also determined, including the electric-dipole () magic wavelengths, as well as the hyperpolarizabilities and tensor polarizabilities around the magic wavelengths. Additionally, we derive the hyperfine constant for the state from the measured absolute frequencies , providing a sixfold enhancement in the uncertainty reduction compared to the recent result. We anticipate that this work will prompt further investigation of the additional clock transition at 1695 nm in atoms. Together with the well-established transition, many fundamental and new physics research, such as the time variation of , ultralight dark-matter searches, Lorentz violation, etc., will enable new bounds and measurements with unprecedented precision.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011023;
- Crossref Funder ID
- 10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100012166; 10.13039/501100003399; 10.13039/501100012247;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review X
- Journal Volume
- 14
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- 13 pgs.
- ISSN
- 2160-3308
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMS; DIPOLES; FINE STRUCTURE; FORBIDDEN TRANSITIONS; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; LIMITING VALUES; PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS; POLARIZABILITY; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY; TENSORS; VARIATIONS; WAVELENGTHS
- Descriptors DEC
- ATOM COLLISIONS; COLLISIONS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; MULTIPOLES; PHOTON COLLISIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- 62105102; 11134003; 2016YFA0302103; 2017YFF0212003; 2016YFB0501601; 2019SHZDZX01; 12XD1402400
- Notes
- These authors contributed equally to this work.; Contact Email: Corresponding author: xyxu@phy.ecnu.edu.cn; Record automatically processed
- Funding organization
- National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Key Research and Development Program of China; Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality; Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader