Optical clocks based on atoms and ions achieve exceptional precision and
accuracy, with applications to relativistic geodesy, tests of relativity, and
searches for dark matter. Achieving such performance requires balancing
competing desirable features, including a high particle number, isolation of
atoms from collisions, insensitivity to motional effects, and high duty-cycle
operation. Here we demonstrate a new platform based on arrays of ultracold
strontium atoms confined within optical tweezers that realizes a novel
combination of these features by providing a scalable platform for isolated
atoms that can be interrogated multiple times. With this tweezer-array clock,
we achieve greater than 3 second coherence times and record duty cycles up to
96%, as well as stability commensurate with leading platforms. By using optical
tweezer arrays --- a proven platform for the controlled creation of
entanglement through microscopic control --- this work further promises a new
path toward combining entanglement enhanced sensitivities with the most precise
optical clock transitions.
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%1 norcia2019secondsscale
%A Norcia, Matthew A.
%A Young, Aaron W.
%A Eckner, William J.
%A Oelker, Eric
%A Ye, Jun
%A Kaufman, Adam M.
%D 2019
%K experiment neutral_atoms spectroscopy tweezers
%T Seconds-scale coherence in a tweezer-array optical clock
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10934
%X Optical clocks based on atoms and ions achieve exceptional precision and
accuracy, with applications to relativistic geodesy, tests of relativity, and
searches for dark matter. Achieving such performance requires balancing
competing desirable features, including a high particle number, isolation of
atoms from collisions, insensitivity to motional effects, and high duty-cycle
operation. Here we demonstrate a new platform based on arrays of ultracold
strontium atoms confined within optical tweezers that realizes a novel
combination of these features by providing a scalable platform for isolated
atoms that can be interrogated multiple times. With this tweezer-array clock,
we achieve greater than 3 second coherence times and record duty cycles up to
96%, as well as stability commensurate with leading platforms. By using optical
tweezer arrays --- a proven platform for the controlled creation of
entanglement through microscopic control --- this work further promises a new
path toward combining entanglement enhanced sensitivities with the most precise
optical clock transitions.
@misc{norcia2019secondsscale,
abstract = {Optical clocks based on atoms and ions achieve exceptional precision and
accuracy, with applications to relativistic geodesy, tests of relativity, and
searches for dark matter. Achieving such performance requires balancing
competing desirable features, including a high particle number, isolation of
atoms from collisions, insensitivity to motional effects, and high duty-cycle
operation. Here we demonstrate a new platform based on arrays of ultracold
strontium atoms confined within optical tweezers that realizes a novel
combination of these features by providing a scalable platform for isolated
atoms that can be interrogated multiple times. With this tweezer-array clock,
we achieve greater than 3 second coherence times and record duty cycles up to
96%, as well as stability commensurate with leading platforms. By using optical
tweezer arrays --- a proven platform for the controlled creation of
entanglement through microscopic control --- this work further promises a new
path toward combining entanglement enhanced sensitivities with the most precise
optical clock transitions.},
added-at = {2019-05-07T14:57:09.000+0200},
author = {Norcia, Matthew A. and Young, Aaron W. and Eckner, William J. and Oelker, Eric and Ye, Jun and Kaufman, Adam M.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2866c0436a6ce19e3095c93068a64fde7/marschu},
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keywords = {experiment neutral_atoms spectroscopy tweezers},
note = {cite arxiv:1904.10934},
timestamp = {2019-05-07T14:57:09.000+0200},
title = {Seconds-scale coherence in a tweezer-array optical clock},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10934},
year = 2019
}