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Systematic evaluation of the JILA Wannier-Stark optical lattice clock

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Abstract

We present results on the evaluation of the systematic uncertainty of the JILA strontium optical lattice clock operated in the Wannier Stark regime. The current overall uncertainty of the strontium optical lattice clock is primarily constrained by the uncertainty of the atom's dynamic sensitivity to black-body radiation. The main limitation arises from the limited knowledge of the dynamic polarizability. Our efforts focus on enhancing the understanding of the dynamic polarizability, involving the measurement of the dipole moment for a dominant transition [1,2,3]. We also provide characterization of other systematic uncertainties of the JILA optical lattice clock and provide an overall uncertainty number.

[1] S. G. Porsev et al., Phys. Rev. A 78, 032508 (2008)

[2] K. Beloy et al., Phys. Rev. A 86, 051404 (2012), [3] T. L. Nicholson et al., Nat Commun 6, 6896 (2015)

Presenters

  • Kyungtae Kim

    University of Colorado Boulder, JILA

Authors

  • Kyungtae Kim

    University of Colorado Boulder, JILA

  • Alexander G Aeppli

    University of Colorado Boulder, JILA

  • William D Warfield

    University of Colorado Boulder, JILA

  • Jun Ye

    CU Boulder, JILA, CU Boulder, JILA, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder