Preliminary Frequency Comparison of Two 40^Ca^＋ Optical Frequency Standards

Frequency comparison is one of the most efficient ways to evaluate the performance of a frequency standard. Based on the pre-existing 40^Ca＋ optical frequency standard, we set up the second 40^Ca^＋ optical frequency standard, which has been improved in the materials and structure of ion traps for better control of the magnetic field. After the compensation, the residual magnetic field at the position of the ion is adjusted to be～500nT with a long time jitter of～10nT, which is better than the pre-existing 40^Ca^＋ optical frequency standard. We realize the ＇4-point-closed-loop locking＇ on the second 40^Ca＋ optical frequency standard after a series of preparatory works. Through half an hour of measurement time, the two frequency standards exhibited a stability of 2.1 × 10^-13.τ^1/2 and a relative frequency difference of 1.5 （2.9）Hz.     

Microwave-Optical Double-Resonance Spectroscopy Experiment of 199Hg＋ Ground State Hyperfine Splitting in a Linear Ion Trap

We report a spectroscopy experiment of the ^199Hg＋ ions are optically pumped by a discharge lamp and splitting is measured to be 40507347996.8（0.1）Hz by line width as 30mHz is also observed. This progress ion frequency standards. ground state hyperfine splitting in a linear ion trap. The cooled by helium buffer gas. The ground state hyperfine the mierowave-optical double-resonance method. A nsrrow builds the foundation for the realization of trapped ^199Hg＋     

The influence of Exciting Frequency on N2 and N2+ Vibrational Temperature of Nitrogen Capacitively Coupled Plasma

By using optical emission spectroscopy （OES）, N2 and N2^＋ vibrational temperatures in capacitively coupled plasma discharges with different exciting frequencies are investigated. The vibrational temperatures are acquired by comparing the measured and calculated spectra of selected transitions with a least-square procedure. It is found that N2 and N2^＋ vibrational temperatures almost increase linearly with increasing exciting frequency up to 23 MHz, then increase slowly or even decrease. The pressure corresponding to the maximum point of N2 vibrational temperature decreases with the increasing exciting frequency. These experimental phenomena are attributed to the increasing electron density, whereas the electron temperature decreases with exciting frequency rising.     

Experimental Improvement of Signal of a Single Laser-Cooled Trapped ^40Ca^＋ Ion

A single ^40Ca^＋ ion is loaded in a miniature Paul trap and the probability of directly loading a single ion is above 50%. The signal-to-noise ratio and the storage time for a single ion have been improved by minimizing the ion micromotion and locking a 397nm cooling laser to a Fabry-Perot interferometer and optogalvanic signal. From the fluorescence spectrum, the ion temperature is estimated to be about 5mK.     

Frequency-Shift of a Frequency Stabilized Laser Based on Zeeman Effect

We introduce a new method of frequency-shifting for a diode laser in laser cooling experiments, the method is based on the Zeeman egect of^87 Rb atoms. The laser frequency is stabilized by absorption spectrum line of atoms in magnetic field. We show that a magnetic field can be added up to 10^-2T. The corresponding frequency shift is 10^2 MHz and the response time is about 1ms. The large range of the frequency shift is suffcient for laser-cooling experiments.     

Branching Ratios of α Decay for Nuclei near Deformed Shell Closures

The generalized liquid drop model （GLDM） is extended to the region around deformed shell closure ^270Hs by taking into account the excitation energy EI＋ of the residual daughter nucleus and the centrifugal potential energy Vcen（r）. The branching ratios of a decays from the ground state of a parent nucleus to the ground state 0^＋ of its deformed daughter nucleus and to the first excited state 2^＋ are calculated in the framework of the GLDM. The results support the proposal that a measurement of a spectroscopy is a feasible method to extract information on nuclear deformation of superheavy nuclei around the deformed nucleus ^270Hs.     

Investigation of analytical harmonic frequency and potential energy function,vibrational levels for the X^2∑^＋ and A^2Л states of CN radical

This paper calculates the equilibrium structure and the potential energy functions of the ground state （X^2∑^＋） and the low lying excited electronic state （A^2Л） of CN radical are calculated by using CASSCF method. The potential energy curves are obtained by a least square fitting to the modified Murrell-Sorbie function. On the basis of physical theory of potential energy function, harmonic frequency （ωe） and other spectroscopic constants （ωeχe, βe and αe） are calculated by employing the Rydberg-Klei-Rees method. The theoretical calculation results are in excellent agreement with the experimental and other complicated theoretical calculation data. In addition, the eigenvalues of vibrational levels have been calculated by solving the radial one-dimensional SchrSdinger equation of nuclear motion using the algebraic method based on the analytical potential energy function.     

Microwave Atomic Clock in the Optical Lattice with Specific Frequency

A scheme for a microwave atomic clock is proposed for Cs or Rb atoms trapped in a blue detuned optical lattice. The ac Stark shift of the clock transition due to a trapping laser is calculated. We analyze it at some specific laser wavelength. Compared with the case of the fountain clock, the cavity related shifts, the collision shift and the Doppler effect are eliminated or suppressed dramatically in an atomic lattice clock. By analyzing various sources of clock uncertainty, a microwave atomic lattice clock with a high accuracy and small volume is feasible.     

Observation of Spin Polarized Clock Transition in 87Sr Optical Lattice Clock

Atomic clocks operating at optical frequencies, with much better accuracy compared with microwave atomic clocks, have been assumed to be the next- generation time and frequency standards, Many applications will benefit from this lower frequency un- certainty of optical clocks, such as the re-definition of ＇the second＇, i.e. one of the seven base units of the international system of units （SI）, test of the time variation of fundamental physical constants and rel- ativity geodesy. Recently, the neutral atom lattice clock has achieved a lower frequency uncertainty com- pared with the optical ion clock, mainly due to the im- provement of the clock laser frequency stability refer- enced to a long high-finesse ULE cavity and the more accurate evaluation of black-body radiation shift. Strontium is an excellent candidate for the neutral atom optical clock. For the fermionic isotope of stron- tium, it has intrinsically less collision shift and the first order Zeeman shift can be removed by an inter- leaved probing approach.Recently, through the pre-cise measurement of the polarizability of strontium, the black body radiation （BBR） shift of the stron- tium lattice clock, which remains to be the limitation factor of its total frequency uncertainty, is reduced to a lower 10^-18 value.The instability of the strontium lattice clock has reached 3.1 × 10-16/√T, showing the significant advantage over the single ion optical clock. The total systematic uncertainty has reached 6.4 × 10^-18 in fractional frequency, which is the best among all optical clocks until now.