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Additional data for the publication "Transportable strontium lattice clock with 4 x 10^-19 blackbody radiation shift uncertainty"

  • I. Nosske (Creator)
  • C Vishwakarma (Creator)
  • Tim Lücke (Creator)
  • J. Rahm (Creator)
  • N Poudel (Creator)
  • S. Weyers (Creator)
  • Erik Benkler (Creator)
  • Soren Dörscher (Creator)
  • Christian Lisdat (Creator)

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Description

We describe a transportable optical lattice clock based on the 1S0 -> 3P0 transition of lattice-trapped 87Sr atoms with a total systematic uncertainty of 2.1 x 10^-18. The blackbody radiation shift, which is the leading systematic effect in many strontium lattice clocks, is controlled at the level of 4.0 x 10^-19, as the atoms are interrogated inside a well-characterised, cold thermal shield. Using a transportable clock laser, the clock reaches a frequency instability of about 5 x 10^-16 (tau/s)^-0.5, which enables fast reevaluations of systematic effects. By comparing this clock to the primary caesium fountain clocks CSF1 and CSF2 at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, we measure the clock transition frequency with a fractional uncertainty of 1.9 x 10^-16, in agreement with previous results. The clock was successfully transported and operated at different locations. It holds the potential to be used for geodetic measurements with centimetre-level or better height resolution and for accurate inter-institute frequency comparisons.
Date made available6 Oct 2025
PublisherPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Keywords

  • transportable optical clock
  • optical lattice clock
  • strontium atoms
  • blackbody radiation shift
  • single-beam magneto-optical trap

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