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Atomic clock frequency ratios with fractional uncertainty $\leq 3.2 \times 10^{-18}$

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21428v1
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:25:48 GMT
Title: Atomic clock frequency ratios with fractional uncertainty $\leq 3.2 \times 10^{-18}$
Authors: Alexander Aeppli, Willa J. Arthur-Dworschack, Kyle Beloy, Caitlin M. Berry, Tobias Bothwell, Angela Folz, Tara M. Fortier, Tanner Grogan, Youssef S. Hassan, Zoey Z. Hu, David B. Hume, Benjamin D. Hunt, Kyungtae Kim, Amanda Koepke, Dahyeon Lee, David R. Leibrandt, Ben Lewis, Andrew D. Ludlow, Mason C. Marshall, Nicholas V. Nardelli, Harikesh Ranganath, Daniel A. Rodriguez Castillo, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Jacob L. Siegel, Suzanne Thornton, William Warfield, Jun Ye,
Abstract summary: We report high-precision frequency ratio measurements between optical atomic clocks based on $27$Al$+$, $171$Yb, and $87$Sr.<n>With total fractional uncertainties at or below $3.2 times 10-18$, these measurements meet an important milestone criterion for redefinition of the second in the International System of Units.
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Abstract: We report high-precision frequency ratio measurements between optical atomic clocks based on $^{27}$Al$^+$, $^{171}$Yb, and $^{87}$Sr. With total fractional uncertainties at or below $3.2 \times 10^{-18}$, these measurements meet an important milestone criterion for redefinition of the second in the International System of Units. Discrepancies in $^{87}$Sr ratios at approximately $1\times10^{-16}$ and the Al$^+$/Yb ratio at $1.6\times10^{-17}$ in fractional units compared to our previous measurements underscore the importance of repeated, high-precision comparisons by different laboratories. A key innovation in this work is the use of a common ultrastable reference delivered to all clocks via a 3.6 km phase-stabilized fiber link between two institutions. Derived from a cryogenic single-crystal silicon cavity, this reference improves comparison stability by a factor of 2 to 3 over previous systems, with an optical lattice clock ratio achieving a fractional instability of $1.3 \times 10^{-16}$ at 1 second. By enabling faster comparisons, this stability will improve sensitivity to non-white noise processes and other underlying limits of state-of-the-art optical frequency standards.

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