Precision measurement of fermionic collisions using an 87Sr optical lattice clock with 1 × 10-16 inaccuracy

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 574-582

  Swallows, Matthew ^a   Campbell, Gretchen K ^a   Ludlow, Andrew D ^b   Boyd, Martin M ^a,c   Thomsen, Jan W ^d   Martin, Michael J ^a   Blatt, Sebastian ^a   Nicholson, Travis L ^a   Ye, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AOSense Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY RADIATION SHIFT; CLOCK FREQUENCY; COLLISIONAL SHIFT; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; FERMIONIC ATOMS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY SHIFT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARD; OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; RECENT PROGRESS; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES;

ANTENNA RADIATION; ATOMIC CLOCKS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FERMIONS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; OPTICAL DEVICES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 77949406626     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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