Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

Atomic clocks for geodesy

TE Mehlstäubler, G Grosche, C Lisdat… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review experimental progress on optical atomic clocks and frequency transfer, and
consider the prospects of using these technologies for geodetic measurements. Today …

Atomic clock performance enabling geodesy below the centimetre level

WF McGrew, X Zhang, RJ Fasano, SA Schäffer… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The passage of time is tracked by counting oscillations of a frequency reference, such as
Earth's revolutions or swings of a pendulum. By referencing atomic transitions, frequency …

JILA SrI optical lattice clock with uncertainty of

T Bothwell, D Kedar, E Oelker, JM Robinson… - Metrologia, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on an improved systematic evaluation of the JILA SrI optical lattice clock,
achieving a nearly identical uncertainty compared to the previous strontium record set by the …

Search for ultralight dark matter from long-term frequency comparisons of optical and microwave atomic clocks

T Kobayashi, A Takamizawa, D Akamatsu, A Kawasaki… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We search for ultralight scalar dark matter candidates that induce oscillations of the fine
structure constant, the electron and quark masses, and the quantum chromodynamics …

Single-Ion Atomic Clock with Systematic Uncertainty

N Huntemann, C Sanner, B Lipphardt, C Tamm, E Peik - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We experimentally investigate an optical frequency standard based on the S 1/2 2 (F= 0)→ F
7/2 2 (F= 3) electric octupole (E 3) transition of a single trapped Yb+ 171 ion. For the …

A Fermi-degenerate three-dimensional optical lattice clock

SL Campbell, RB Hutson, GE Marti, A Goban… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Strontium optical lattice clocks have the potential to simultaneously interrogate millions of
atoms with a high spectroscopic quality factor of 4× 1017. Previously, atomic interactions …

Systematic evaluation of an atomic clock at 2 × 10−18 total uncertainty

TL Nicholson, SL Campbell, RB Hutson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The pursuit of better atomic clocks has advanced many research areas, providing better
quantum state control, new insights in quantum science, tighter limits on fundamental …

Frequency ratio of Yb and Sr clocks with 5× 10− 17 uncertainty at 150 seconds averaging time

N Nemitz, T Ohkubo, M Takamoto, I Ushijima, M Das… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transition frequencies of atoms and ions are among the most accurately accessible
quantities in nature, playing important roles in pushing the frontiers of science by testing …

Narrow-line cooling and imaging of ytterbium atoms in an optical tweezer array

S Saskin, JT Wilson, B Grinkemeyer, JD Thompson - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Engineering controllable, strongly interacting many-body quantum systems is at the frontier
of quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Arrays of laser-cooled neutral …