Experiments with Highly-Ionized Atoms in Unitary Penning Traps

Atoms

Samuel M. Brewer¹  Aung S. Naing²  Nicholas D. Guise³  Joseph N. Tan³  Joan M. Dreiling³  Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide³ 

[1] Chemical Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA;National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA;

关键词: highly-ionized atoms;    atomic clocks;    Rydberg states;    ion traps;   

DOI  :  10.3390/atoms3030367

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Highly-ionized atoms with special properties have been proposed for interesting applications, including potential candidates for a new generation of optical atomic clocks at the one part in 1019 level of precision, quantum information processing and tests of fundamental theory. The proposed atomic systems are largely unexplored. Recent developments at NIST are described, including the isolation of highly-ionized atoms at low energy in unitary Penning traps and the use of these traps for the precise measurement of radiative decay lifetimes (demonstrated with a forbidden transition in Kr17+), as well as for studying electron capture processes.

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