Resolving the gravitational redshift across a millimetre-scale atomic sample

T Bothwell, CJ Kennedy, A Aeppli, D Kedar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Einstein's theory of general relativity states that clocks at different gravitational potentials tick
at different rates relative to lab coordinates—an effect known as the gravitational redshift. As …

Matter-wave atomic gradiometer interferometric sensor (MAGIS-100)

M Abe, P Adamson, M Borcean… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
MAGIS-100 is a next-generation quantum sensor under construction at Fermilab that aims to
explore fundamental physics with atom interferometry over a 100 m baseline. This novel …

Cavity-enhanced optical lattices for scaling neutral atom quantum technologies to higher qubit numbers

AJ Park, J Trautmann, N Šantić, V Klüsener, A Heinz… - PRX quantum, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate a cavity-based solution to scale up experiments with ultracold atoms in
optical lattices by an order of magnitude over state-of-the-art free-space lattices. Our two …

magnetic quadrupole transition in neutral strontium

J Trautmann, D Yankelev, V Klüsener, AJ Park… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We present a detailed investigation of the ultranarrow magnetic-quadrupole S 0 1-P 2 3
transition in neutral strontium and show how it can be made accessible for quantum …

Observation of millihertz-level cooperative Lamb shifts in an optical atomic clock

RB Hutson, WR Milner, L Yan, J Ye, C Sanner - Science, 2024 - science.org
Collective couplings of atomic dipoles to a shared electromagnetic environment produce a
wide range of many-body phenomena. We report on the direct observation of resonant …

Lifetime of the Level in for Spontaneous Emission of Electric Octupole Radiation

R Lange, AA Peshkov, N Huntemann, C Tamm… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report a measurement of the radiative lifetime of the F 7/2 2 level of Yb+ 171 that is
coupled to the S 1/2 2 ground state via an electric octupole transition. The radiative lifetime …

Ground-state bistability of cold atoms in a cavity

B Gábor, D Nagy, A Dombi, TW Clark, FIB Williams… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate an optical bistability between two hyperfine ground states of
trapped, cold atoms, using a single mode of an optical resonator in the collective strong …

Large-scale atom interferometry for fundamental physics

O Buchmueller, J Ellis, U Schneider - Contemporary Physics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Atom interferometers measure quantum interference patterns in the wave functions of cold
atoms that follow superpositions of different space-time trajectories. These can be sensitive …

Continuous collective strong coupling between atoms and a high finesse optical cavity

JRK Cline, VM Schäfer, Z Niu, DJ Young… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We demonstrate continuous loading of strontium atoms into a high finesse ring cavity and
observe continuous strong collective coupling in the form of a vacuum Rabi splitting …

-dependent hyperfine-induced clock transition rates in an external magnetic field for

X Lu, F Guo, Y Wang, M Feng, T Liang, B Lu, H Chang - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we theoretically calculate the natural lifetime of the 5 s 5 p P 0 o 3 state of the
Sr 87 atom and evaluate the effect of an external magnetic field on the lifetimes of Zeeman …