Cavity-QED determination of the natural linewidth of the $^{87}$Sr millihertz clock transition with 30$\mu$Hz resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07855v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:21:42 GMT
• Title: Cavity-QED determination of the natural linewidth of the $^{87}$Sr millihertz clock transition with 30$\mu$Hz resolution
• Authors: Juan A. Muniz, Dylan J. Young, Julia R. K. Cline and James K. Thompson
• Abstract summary: We present a new method for determining the intrinsic natural linewidth or lifetime of exceptionally long-lived optical excited states. Such transitions are key to the performance of state-of-the-art atomic clocks, have potential applications in searches for fundamental physics and gravitational wave detectors.
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• Abstract: We present a new method for determining the intrinsic natural linewidth or lifetime of exceptionally long-lived optical excited states. Such transitions are key to the performance of state-of-the-art atomic clocks, have potential applications in searches for fundamental physics and gravitational wave detectors, as well as novel quantum many-body phenomena. With longer lifetime optical transitions, sensitivity is increased, but so far it has proved challenging to determine the natural lifetime of many of these long lived optical excited states because standard population decay detection techniques become experimentally difficult. Here, we determine the ratio of a poorly known ultranarrow linewidth transition ($^3$P$_0$ to $^1$S$_0$ in $^{87}$Sr) to that of another narrow well known transition ($^3$P$_1$ to $^1$S$_0$) by coupling the two transitions to a single optical cavity and performing interleaved nondestructive measurements of the interaction strengths of the atoms with cavity modes near each transition frequency. We use this approach to determine the natural linewidth of the clock transition $^3$P$_0$ to $^1$S$_0$ in $^{87}$Sr to be $\gamma_0/(2\pi) = 1.35(3)~$mHz or $\tau= 118(3)~$s. The 30$~\mu$Hz resolution implies that we could detect states with lifetimes just below 2 hours, and with straightforward future improvements, we could detect states with lifetimes up to 15 hours, using measurement trials that last only a few hundred milliseconds, eliminating the need for long storage times in optical potentials.

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