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Investigation of the 6s6pP034f135d6s2 (J=2) Clock Transition in Yb171 Atoms

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China

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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 6s6pP304f135d6s2 (J=2) in Y171b atoms at the wavelength of 1695 nm, which exhibits the highest sensitivity to the variation of the fine-structure constant α 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 (E1) magic wavelengths, as well as the hyperpolarizabilities and tensor polarizabilities around the E1 magic wavelengths. Additionally, we derive the hyperfine constant for the J=2 state from the measured absolute frequencies 1123252.3±2.0kHz, 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 Y171b atoms. Together with the well-established S01P03 transition, many fundamental and new physics research, such as the time variation of α, ultralight dark-matter searches, Lorentz violation, etc., will enable new bounds and measurements with unprecedented precision.

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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

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