Micromagic clock: microwave clock based on atoms in an engineered optical lattice.
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چکیده
We propose a new class of atomic microwave clocks based on the hyperfine transitions in the ground state of aluminum or gallium atoms trapped in optical lattices. For such elements magic wavelengths exist at which both levels of the hyperfine doublet are shifted at the same rate by the lattice laser field, cancelling its effect on the clock transition. A similar mechanism for the magic wavelengths may work in microwave hyperfine transitions in other atoms which have the fine-structure multiplets in the ground state.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 102 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009