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 …