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Title: F -state quenching with CH 4 for buffer-gas cooled 171 Y b + frequency standard [Methane (CH4) for quenching the F-state in trapped Yb+ ions].

Journal Article · · AIP Advances
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935562· OSTI ID:1339264
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  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

We report that methane, CH4, can be used as an efficient F-state quenching gas for trapped ytterbium ions. The quenching rate coefficient is measured to be (2.8 ± 0.3) × 106 s-1 Torr-1. For applications that use microwave hyperfine transitions of the ground-state 171Y b ions, the CH4 induced frequency shift coefficient and the decoherence rate coefficient are measured as δν/ν = (-3.6 ± 0.1) × 10-6 Torr-1 and 1/T2 = (1.5 ± 0.2) × 105 s-1 Torr-1. In our buffer-gas cooled 171Y b+ microwave clock system, we find that only ≤10-8 Torr of CH4 is required under normal operating conditions to efficiently clear the F-state and maintain ≥85% of trapped ions in the ground state with insignificant pressure shift and collisional decoherence of the clock resonance.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1339264
Report Number(s):
SAND-2015-5204J; 594436
Journal Information:
AIP Advances, Vol. 5, Issue 11; ISSN 2158-3226
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 11 works
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