Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing

D Yu, M Humar, K Meserve, RC Bailey… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Highly charged ions: Optical clocks and applications in fundamental physics

MG Kozlov, MS Safronova… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Recent developments in frequency metrology and optical clocks have been based on
electronic transitions in atoms and singly charged ions as references. The control over all …

Resolving the gravitational redshift across a millimetre-scale atomic sample

T Bothwell, CJ Kennedy, A Aeppli, D Kedar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Einstein's theory of general relativity states that clocks at different gravitational potentials tick
at different rates relative to lab coordinates—an effect known as the gravitational redshift. As …

Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock

A Cao, WJ Eckner, T Lukin Yelin, AW Young… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Many-particle entanglement is a key resource for achieving the fundamental precision limits
of a quantum sensor. Optical atomic clocks, the current state of the art in frequency precision …

Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock

WJ Eckner, N Darkwah Oppong, A Cao, AW Young… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Neutral-atom arrays trapped in optical potentials are a powerful platform for studying
quantum physics, combining precise single-particle control and detection with a range of …

Improved limits on the coupling of ultralight bosonic dark matter to photons from optical atomic clock comparisons

M Filzinger, S Dörscher, R Lange, J Klose, M Steinel… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present improved constraints on the coupling of ultralight bosonic dark matter to photons
based on long-term measurements of two optical frequency ratios. In these optical clock …

Quantum-Logic Clock with a Systematic Uncertainty below

SM Brewer, JS Chen, AM Hankin, ER Clements… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We describe an optical atomic clock based on quantum-logic spectroscopy of the S 0 1↔ P
3 0 transition in Al+ 27 with a systematic uncertainty of 9.4× 10-19 and a frequency stability …

An optical atomic clock based on a highly charged ion

SA King, LJ Spieß, P Micke, A Wilzewski, T Leopold… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement devices ever constructed and
have found many applications in fundamental science and technology,–. The use of highly …

Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks

E Oelker, RB Hutson, CJ Kennedy, L Sonderhouse… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence owing to
the challenge of performing spectroscopy on their ultranarrow-linewidth clock transitions …

Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level

JM Robinson, M Miklos, YM Tso, CJ Kennedy… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Building scalable quantum systems that demonstrate performance enhancement based on
entanglement is a major goal in quantum computing and metrology. The main challenge …