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High-accuracy optical clocks based on group 16-like highly charged ions
Published
Author(s)
Saleh Allehabi, Samuel Brewer, Vladimir Dzuba, Victor Flambaum, Kyle Beloy
Abstract
We identify laser-accessible transitions in group 16-like highly charged ions as candidates for high-accuracy optical clocks, including S-, Se-, and Te-like systems. For this class of ions, the ground 3PJ fi ne structure manifold exhibits irregular (nonmonotonic in J) energy ordering for large enough ionization degree. We consider the 3P2->3P0 (ground to fi rst-excited state) electric quadrupole transition, performing relativistic many-body calculations of several atomic properties important for optical clock development. All ions discussed are suitable for production in small-scale ion sources and lend themselves to sympathetic cooling and quantum-logic readout with singly charged ions.
Allehabi, S.
, Brewer, S.
, Dzuba, V.
, Flambaum, V.
and Beloy, K.
(2022),
High-accuracy optical clocks based on group 16-like highly charged ions, Physical Review A, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935140
(Accessed October 17, 2025)