Frequency ratio of two optical clock transitions in Yb+ 171 and constraints on the time variation of fundamental constants

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Godun, R M ^a   Nisbet Jones, P B R ^a   Jones, J M ^a,b   King, S A ^a   Johnson, L A M ^a   Margolis, H S ^a   Szymaniec, K ^a   Lea, S N ^a   Bongs, K ^b   Gill, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; YTTERBIUM;

ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; OPTICAL ATOMIC CLOCKS; OPTICAL CLOCK TRANSITION; PRIMARY STANDARDS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 84919360039     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.210801     Document Type: Article

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