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强禁戒光学钟跃迁的共线三光子激发

Collinear Three-Photon Excitation of a Strongly Forbidden Optical Clock Transition

Samuel P. Carman, Jan Rudolph, Benjamin E. Garber, Michael J. Van de Graaff, Hunter Swan, Yijun Jiang, Megan Nantel, Mahiro Abe, Rachel L. Barcklay, Jason M. Hogan

AI总结:

本文针对玻色子锶同位素中强禁戒的${{^1\rm{S}_0}\text{-}{^3\rm{P}_0}}$钟跃迁,提出弱磁场下共线三光子激发方法,实现相干激发并观测到高频率拉比振荡,为降低原子钟系统误差及下一代量子传感器应用奠定基础。

摘要:

锶中的${{^1\rm{S}_0}\text{-}{^3\rm{P}_0}}$钟跃迁是世界上最先进原子钟以及钟原子干涉测量中引力波探测器概念的基础。该跃迁在费米子同位素$^{87}$Sr中弱允许,但在玻色子同位素中强禁戒。本文展示了在弱磁场中利用新型共线三光子过程对玻色子$^{88}$Sr的钟跃迁进行相干激发。我们观测到在W/cm²级激光强度和高斯级磁场振幅下,拉比振荡频率高达50 kHz。玻色子同位素无核自旋,降低了对磁场和光学晶格光频移的敏感性,使原子钟系统误差减少。激光场共线传播允许用公共激光脉冲询问空间分离的原子系综,这是暗物质搜索和下一代量子传感器引力波探测的关键要求。

英文摘要:

The ${{^1\mathrm{S}_0}\!-\!{^3\mathrm{P}_0}}$ clock transition in strontium serves as the foundation for the world's best atomic clocks and for gravitational wave detector concepts in clock atom interferometry. This transition is weakly allowed in the fermionic isotope $^{87}$Sr but strongly forbidden in bosonic isotopes. Here, we demonstrate coherent excitation of the clock transition in bosonic ${}^{88}$Sr using a novel collinear three-photon process in a weak magnetic field. We observe Rabi oscillations with frequencies of up to $50~\text{kHz}$ using $\text{W}/\text{cm}^{2}$ laser intensities and Gauss-level magnetic field amplitudes. The absence of nuclear spin in bosonic isotopes offers decreased sensitivity to magnetic fields and optical lattice light shifts, enabling atomic clocks with reduced systematic errors. The collinear propagation of the laser fields permits the interrogation of spatially separated atomic ensembles with common laser pulses, a key requirement for dark matter searches and gravitational wave detection with next-generation quantum sensors.

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