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Published on: August 17, 2017
Accurate measurement of the 12.6 GHz "clock" transition in trapped (171)Yb(+) ions
P H Fisk1, M J Sellars, M A Lawn
1Nat. Meas. Lab., CSIRO, Lindfield, NSW.
Abstract:
We have measured the frequency of the (171)Yb(+) 12.6 GHz M(F)=0-->0 ground state hyperfine "clock" transition in buffer gas-cooled ion clouds confined in two similar, but not identical, linear Paul traps. After correction for the known differences between the two ion traps, including significantly different second-order Doppler shifts, the frequencies agree within an uncertainty of less than 2 parts in 10(13). Our best value, based on an analytic model for the second-order Doppler shift, for the frequency of the clock transition of an isolated ion at zero temperature, velocity, electric field and magnetic field, is 12642812118.466+0.002 Hz.
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