Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the 199Hg+ single-ion optical clock

Details Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the 199Hg+ single-ion optical clock Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the 199Hg+ single-ion optical clock

2002-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0212109v1

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Atomic Physics

4 pages with 3 figures. RevTeX 4, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.150802

Over a two-year duration, we have compared the frequency of the 199Hg+ 5d106s 2S 1/2 (F=0)<-> 5d9 6s2 2D 5/2 (F=2) electric-quadrupole transition at 282 nm with the frequency of the ground-state hyperfine splitting in neutral 133Cs. These measurements show that any fractional time variation of the ratio nu(Cs)/nu(Hg) between the two frequencies is smaller than +/- 7 10^-15 / yr (1 sigma uncertainty). According to recent atomic structure calculations, this sets an upper limit to a possible fractional time variation of g(Cs) m_e / m_p alpha^6.0 at the same level.

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