We propose a new ion-trap geometry to carry out accurate measurements of the quadrupole shifts in the （171）Yb ion.This trap will minimize the quadrupole shift due to the harmonic component of the confining potential...We propose a new ion-trap geometry to carry out accurate measurements of the quadrupole shifts in the （171）Yb ion.This trap will minimize the quadrupole shift due to the harmonic component of the confining potential by an order of magnitude.This will be useful to reduce the uncertainties in the clock frequency measurements of the 6s 2S（1/2）→4f（13）6s2 2F（7/2）and 6s 2S（1/2）→5d2D（3/2） transitions,from which we can deduce the precise values of the quadrupole moments（0s） of the 4f（13）6s2 2F（7/2） and 5d2D（3/2） states.Moreover,it may be able to affirm the validity of the measured 0 value of the4f（13）6s22F（7/2） state,for which three independent theoretical studies defer almost by one order of magnitude from the measurement.We also calculate 0s using the relativistic coupled-cluster（RCC） method.We use these 0 values to estimate the quadrupole shift that can be measured in our proposed ion trap experiment.展开更多
基金CSIR-National Physical Laboratory,Depaitment of Science and Technology(Grant No.SB/S2/LOP/033/2013)the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences(Grant No. 34/14/ 19/2014-BRNS/0309) for supporting
文摘We propose a new ion-trap geometry to carry out accurate measurements of the quadrupole shifts in the （171）Yb ion.This trap will minimize the quadrupole shift due to the harmonic component of the confining potential by an order of magnitude.This will be useful to reduce the uncertainties in the clock frequency measurements of the 6s 2S（1/2）→4f（13）6s2 2F（7/2）and 6s 2S（1/2）→5d2D（3/2） transitions,from which we can deduce the precise values of the quadrupole moments（0s） of the 4f（13）6s2 2F（7/2） and 5d2D（3/2） states.Moreover,it may be able to affirm the validity of the measured 0 value of the4f（13）6s22F（7/2） state,for which three independent theoretical studies defer almost by one order of magnitude from the measurement.We also calculate 0s using the relativistic coupled-cluster（RCC） method.We use these 0 values to estimate the quadrupole shift that can be measured in our proposed ion trap experiment.
