Integrated pulsed optically pumped Rb atomic clock with frequency stability of

Q Hao, S Yang, J Ruan, P Yun, S Zhang - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Pulsed optically pumped (POP) Rb atomic clock is considered to be a powerful technique for
the Rb atomic clock due to the capability of light-shift mitigation and atomic spectroscopy …

174Yb+–113Cd+ sympathetic-cooling bi-species Coulomb crystal applied to microwave frequency standard

Y Zheng, HR Qin, SN Miao, NC **n, YT Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We reported the realization of a 174 Yb+–113 Cd+ bi-species Coulomb crystal comprising
174 Yb+, a heavier ion, as coolant and verified the potential of applying a coolant ion with a …

Determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of trapped 171Yb+ ions

JZ Han, NC **n, JW Zhang, YM Yu, JG Li… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present the determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting (⁠ ν HFS⁠) in laser-
cooled 171 Yb+ ions using our microwave quantum frequency standard (QFS). Employing …

Second-order Doppler frequency shifts of trapped ions in a linear Paul trap

SN Miao, JW Zhang, Y Zheng, HR Qin, NC **n… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The accurate evaluation of the second-order Doppler frequency shift (SODFS) of trapped
ions in a linear Paul trap has been studied with experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) …

Determination of the Landé factor and Zeeman coefficients in ground-state and their applications to quantum frequency standards

J Han, B Lu, Y Yu, J Li, Z Huang, J Wen, L Qian… - Physical Review A, 2025 - APS
We report the determination of the Landé g J factor and Zeeman coefficients for the ground-
state of 171 Yb+, relevant to microwave quantum frequency standards (QFSs). The g J factor …

Precision determination of the excited-state hyperfine splitting of Cadmium ions

Y Zheng, Y Yu, Y Chen, S Miao, W Shi, J Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Precision determination of the hyperfine splitting of cadmium ions is essential to study space-
time variation of fundamental physical constants and isotope shifts. In this work, we present …

Progress on cadmium-ion and ytterbium-ion Microwave Frequency Standards at Tsinghua University

SN Miao, Y Zheng, YT Chen, WX Shi… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
As a candidate for the next generation microwave clock, microwave atomic clocks based on
trapped ions are currently studied worldwide. Since 2010, our team at Tsinghua University …

Precise determination of ground-state hyperfine splitting and calculation of Zeeman coefficients for 171Yb+ microwave frequency standard

JZ Han, BQ Lu, NC **n, YM Yu, HR Qin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We report precise measurement of the hyperfine splitting and calculation of the Zeeman
coefficients of the $^{171} $ Yb $^+ $ ground state. The absolute hyperfine splitting …

- sympathetic-cooling bi-species Coulomb crystal applied to microwave frequency standard

Y Zheng, HR Qin, SN Miao, NC **n, YT Chen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We reported the realization of a $^{174}\mathrm {Yb}^+ $-$^{113}\mathrm {Cd}^+ $ bi-
species Coulomb crystal comprising $^{174}\mathrm {Yb}^+ $ ions as coolant and verified …

Hyperfine Structure and Absolute Frequency Measurements of 127I2 Transitions at 554 nm and Its Application for Yb+ Ions Cooling

Y Chen, J Zhang, S Miao, Y Zheng… - … Frequency and Time …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a system to stabilize the laser frequency by locking the laser to the
hyperfine transitions of iodine molecules. The frequency stability of 5× 10-12 is observed …