A review of commercial and emerging atomic frequency standards

BLS Marlow, DR Scherer - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atomic frequency standards are used to generate accurate and precise time and frequency,
enabling many communications, synchronization, and navigation systems in modern life …

A review of contemporary atomic frequency standards

BL Schmittberger, DR Scherer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09987, 2020 - arxiv.org
Atomic frequency standards are used to generate accurate and precise time and frequency,
enabling many communications, synchronization, and navigation systems in modern life …

Isotope shift factors for the transition and determination of Cd nuclear charge radii

JZ Han, C Pan, KY Zhang, XF Yang, SQ Zhang… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The accuracy of atomic isotope shift factors limits the extraction of nuclear charge radii from
isotope shift measurements because determining these factors is experimentally and …

[PDF][PDF] Laser-cooled 171Yb+ microwave frequency standard with a short-term frequency instability of 8.5 × 10−13/<?pag \squrt?>√τ

NC Xin, HR Qin, SN Miao, YT Chen, Y Zheng… - Optics …, 2022 - researchgate.net
We report on the development of a microwave frequency standard based on a lasercooled
171Yb+ ion trap system. The electronics, lasers, and magnetic shields are integrated into a …

Prospects of a Ion Clock

K Beloy - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We propose a high-performance atomic clock based on the 1.81 PHz transition between the
ground and first-excited state of doubly ionized lead. Utilizing an even isotope of lead, both …

Toward a high-performance transportable microwave frequency standard based on sympathetically cooled 113Cd+ ions

JZ Han, HR Qin, NC Xin, YM Yu, VA Dzuba… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report a high-performance transportable microwave frequency standard scheme based
on sympathetically cooled 113 Cd+ ions using 40 Ca+ as coolant ions. A transportable …

174Yb+–113Cd+ sympathetic-cooling bi-species Coulomb crystal applied to microwave frequency standard

Y Zheng, HR Qin, SN Miao, NC Xin, YT Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We reported the realization of a 174 Yb+–113 Cd+ bi-species Coulomb crystal comprising
174 Yb+, a heavier ion, as coolant and verified the potential of applying a coolant ion with a …

High-performance microwave frequency standard based on sympathetically cooled ions

HR Qin, SN Miao, JZ Han, NC Xin, YT Chen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The ion microwave frequency standard is a candidate for the next generation of microwave
frequency standard with the potential for very wide applications. The Dick effect and second …

Precision determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of trapped 113Cd+ ions

SN Miao, JW Zhang, HR Qin, NC Xin, JZ Han… - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We measured the ground-state hyperfine splitting of trapped^ 113Cd^+ ions to be
15199862855.02799 (27) Hz with a fractional uncertainty of 1.8× 10^− 14. The ions were …

Determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of trapped 171Yb+ ions

JZ Han, NC Xin, JW Zhang, YM Yu, JG Li… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present the determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting (⁠ ν HFS⁠) in laser-
cooled 171 Yb+ ions using our microwave quantum frequency standard (QFS). Employing …