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Observation of the 1S0-3P0 clock transition in 27Al+

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Author(s)

Till P. Rosenband, P. O. Schmidt, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Jeroen Koelemeij, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland

Abstract

We report for the first time, laser spectroscopy of the 1S03P0 clock transition in 27Al+. 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 a measurement of the clock transition frequency, Ņ = 1 121 015 393 207 851(8) Hz. They are also used to measure the lifetime fo the metastable clock state, τ = 20.6+/-1.4 s, the ground state 1S0 g factor, gs = -0.00079248(14), and the excited stated 3P0 g factor = -0.00197686(21) in units of Bohr magneton.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
98
Issue
220801

Keywords

atom trapping and cooling, quantum computation, quantum information processing, quantum superpositions, quantum-state engineering, trapped ions

Citation

Rosenband, T. , Schmidt, P. , Hume, D. , Itano, W. , Fortier, T. , Stalnaker, J. , Diddams, S. , Koelemeij, J. , Bergquist, J. and Wineland, D. (2007), Observation of the <sup>1</sup>S<sub>0</sub>-<sup>3</sup>P<sub>0</sub> clock transition in <sup>27</sup>Al<sup>+</sup>, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50513 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created June 1, 2007, Updated January 27, 2020