Magic Radio-Frequency Dressing of Nuclear Spins in High-Accuracy Optical Clocks

作者:Zanon Willette Thomas*; de Clercq Emeric; Arimondo Ennio
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2012, 109(22): 223003.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.223003

摘要

A Zeeman-insensitive optical clock atomic transition is engineered when nuclear spins are dressed by a nonresonant radio-frequency field. For fermionic species as Sr-87, Yb-171, and Hg-199, particular ratios between the radio-frequency driving amplitude and frequency lead to %26quot;magic%26apos;%26apos; magnetic values where a net cancelation of the Zeeman clock shift and a complete reduction of first-order magnetic variations are produced within a relative uncertainty below the 10(-18) level. An Autler-Townes continued fraction describing a semiclassical radio-frequency dressed spin is numerically computed and compared to an analytical quantum description including higher-order magnetic field corrections to the dressed energies.

  • 出版日期2012-11-30