An optical atomic clock based on a highly charged ion

SA King, LJ Spieß, P Micke, A Wilzewski, T Leopold… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement devices ever constructed and
have found many applications in fundamental science and technology,–. The use of highly …

New horizons: Scalar and vector ultralight dark matter

D Antypas, A Banerjee, C Bartram… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass
scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative …

Coherent laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions using quantum logic

P Micke, T Leopold, SA King, E Benkler, LJ Spieß… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Precision spectroscopy of atomic systems is an invaluable tool for the study of fundamental
interactions and symmetries. Recently, highly charged ions have been proposed to enable …

Stringent test of QED with hydrogen-like tin

J Morgner, B Tu, CM König, T Sailer, F Heiße, H Bekker… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Inner-shell electrons naturally sense the electric field close to the nucleus, which can reach
extreme values beyond 1015 V cm− 1 for the innermost electrons. Especially in few-electron …

Perspectives on testing fundamental physics with highly charged ions in Penning traps

K Blaum, S Eliseev, S Sturm - Quantum Science and Technology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In Penning traps electromagnetic forces are used to confine charged particles under well-
controlled conditions for virtually unlimited time. Sensitive detection methods have been …

Sympathetic cooling of a trapped proton mediated by an LC circuit

M Bohman, V Grunhofer, C Smorra, M Wiesinger… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Efficient cooling of trapped charged particles is essential to many fundamental physics
experiments,, to high-precision metrology, and to quantum technology,. Until now …

Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Transitions in Helium-like

P Imgram, K König, B Maaß, P Müller… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Transition frequencies and fine-structure splittings of the 2 S 1 3→ 2 P 3 J transitions in
helium-like C 4+ 12 were measured by collinear laser spectroscopy on a 1-ppb level …

Laser spectroscopy of a rovibrational transition in the molecular hydrogen ion

MR Schenkel, S Alighanbari, S Schiller - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Comparison of precise predictions of the energy levels of the molecular hydrogen
ion H 2+—the simplest molecule—with measured vibrational transition frequencies would …

High-Precision Determination of Factors and Masses of and

F Heiße, M Door, T Sailer, P Filianin, J Herkenhoff… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present the measurements of individual bound electron g factors of Ne 20 9+ and Ne 22
9+ on the relative level of 0.1 parts per billion. The comparison with theory represents the …

Collinear laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions produced with an electron-beam ion source

P Imgram, K König, B Maaß, P Müller, W Nörtershäuser - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Collinear laser spectroscopy has been performed on He-like C 4+ ions extracted from an
electron-beam ion source (EBIS). In order to determine the transition frequency with the …