Observation of theClock Transition in
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- 31 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 98 (22) , 220801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.220801
Abstract
We report, for the first time, laser spectroscopy of the clock transition in . A single aluminum ion and a single beryllium ion are simultaneously confined in a linear Paul trap, coupled by their mutual Coulomb repulsion. This coupling allows the beryllium ion to sympathetically cool the aluminum ion and also enables transfer of the aluminum’s electronic state to the beryllium’s hyperfine state, which can be measured with high fidelity. These techniques are applied to measure the clock transition frequency . They are also used to measure the lifetime of the metastable clock state , the ground state factor , and the excited state factor , in units of the Bohr magneton.Keywords
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