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5 March 2021 Metrology and sensing with a molecular clock
Tanya Zelevinsky, Kon H. Leung, Emily Tiberi, Iwona Majewska, Robert Moszynski
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Abstract
Clocks that are based on atomic and molecular transitions can serve as unparalleled sensors of fundamental phenomena. In particular, a clock based on vibrations in a diatomic molecule is a highly precise sensor of the interatomic force, including possible contributions from new physics. Such a clock is also of metrological interest, since vibrational states in homonuclear molecules have extremely long lifetimes. We present the technique of near-resonant magic-wavelength trapping for strontium dimers, which allows us to reach coherence times exceeding 100 ms for far-separated vibrational state superpositions. The development of the molecular clock is accelerated through state-of-the-art quantum chemistry work.
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Tanya Zelevinsky, Kon H. Leung, Emily Tiberi, Iwona Majewska, and Robert Moszynski "Metrology and sensing with a molecular clock", Proc. SPIE 11700, Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology, 117000I (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586520
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KEYWORDS
Clocks

Metrology

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