Roadmap on Atomtronics: State of the art and perspective

L Amico, M Boshier, G Birkl, A Minguzzi… - AVS Quantum …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Atomtronics deals with matter-wave circuits of ultracold atoms manipulated through
magnetic or laser-generated guides with different shapes and intensities. In this way, new …

Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers

N Schlossberger, N Prajapati, S Berweger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Rydberg states of alkali atoms are highly sensitive to electric fields because their electron
wavefunction has a large spatial extent, leading to large polarizabilities for static fields and …

Resolving the gravitational redshift across a millimetre-scale atomic sample

T Bothwell, CJ Kennedy, A Aeppli, D Kedar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Einstein's theory of general relativity states that clocks at different gravitational potentials tick
at different rates relative to lab coordinates—an effect known as the gravitational redshift. As …

Clock with Systematic Uncertainty

A Aeppli, K Kim, W Warfield, MS Safronova, J Ye - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report an optical lattice clock with a total systematic uncertainty of 8.1× 10-19 in fractional
frequency units, representing the lowest uncertainty of any clock to date. The clock relies on …

Frequency ratio measurements at 18-digit accuracy using an optical clock network

Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Atomic clocks are vital in a wide array of technologies and experiments, including tests of
fundamental physics. Clocks operating at optical frequencies have now demonstrated …

Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks

E Oelker, RB Hutson, CJ Kennedy, L Sonderhouse… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence owing to
the challenge of performing spectroscopy on their ultranarrow-linewidth clock transitions …

Half-minute-scale atomic coherence and high relative stability in a tweezer clock

AW Young, WJ Eckner, WR Milner, D Kedar, MA Norcia… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The preparation of large, low-entropy, highly coherent ensembles of identical quantum
systems is fundamental for many studies in quantum metrology, simulation and information …

Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level

JM Robinson, M Miklos, YM Tso, CJ Kennedy… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Building scalable quantum systems that demonstrate performance enhancement based on
entanglement is a major goal in quantum computing and metrology. The main challenge …

Differential clock comparisons with a multiplexed optical lattice clock

X Zheng, J Dolde, V Lochab, BN Merriman, H Li… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid progress in optical atomic clock performance has advanced the frontiers of
timekee**, metrology and quantum science,–. Despite considerable efforts, the …

Improved limits for violations of local position invariance from atomic clock comparisons

R Lange, N Huntemann, JM Rahm, C Sanner… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We compare two optical clocks based on the S 2 1/2 (F= 0)→ D 2 3/2 (F= 2) electric
quadrupole (E2) and the S 2 1/2 (F= 0)→ F 2 7/2 (F= 3) electric octupole (E3) transition of Yb …