Conveners
Lattice Clocks
- Elizabeth Donley
We describe recent techniques, strategies, and efforts toward realizing next-generation optical clock uncertainty and stability with the NIST Yb optical lattice clock.
This talk will discuss a vibrational molecular lattice clock based on ultracold strontium dimers, its systematic evaluation at the 14th decimal digit, the current limitations, and paths forward.
We will present the progress of our Hg optical lattice clock. This work is motivated, in particular, by the low sensitivity of Hg to blackbody radiation and stray electric fields and by the possibility to use ratio between Hg and other optical transitions for fundamental physics and metrology. We re-port on our work done with the 199Hg fermionic isotope to improve uncertainty, stability and...
Precise quantum state engineering, many-body physics, and innovative laser technology are revolutionizing the performance of atomic clocks and metrology, providing opportunities to explore emerging phenomena and probe fundamental physics. A Wannier-Stark optical lattice configuration highlights such an example. Atom-light and atom-atom interactions in the shallow optical lattice are precisely...