Inner-shell magnetic dipole transition in Tm atoms: A candidate for optical lattice clocks
- 24 August 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 94 (2), 022512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.94.022512
Abstract
We consider a narrow magneto-dipole transition in the atom at the wavelength of as a candidate for a two-dimensional-optical lattice clock. Calculating dynamic polarizabilities of the two clock levels and in the spectral range from 250 to 1200 nm, we find a “magic” wavelength for the optical lattice at 807 nm. Frequency shifts due to black-body radiation (BBR), the van der Waals interaction, the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction, and other effects which can perturb the transition frequency are calculated. The transition at demonstrates low sensitivity to the BBR shift corresponding to in fractional units at room temperature which makes it an interesting candidate for high-performance optical clocks. The total estimated frequency uncertainty is less than in fractional units. By direct excitation of the transition in Tm atoms loaded into an optical dipole trap, we set the lower limit for the lifetime of the upper clock level of 112 ms which corresponds to a natural spectral linewidth narrower than 1.4 Hz. The polarizability of the Tm ground state was measured by the excitation of parametric resonances in the optical dipole trap at 532 nm.
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Funding Information
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research (15-02-05324, 16-29-11723)
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