Precision measurement and few-body physics with lattice-trapped Fermi-degenerate gases of strontium

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Abstract

We implement high resolution clock spectroscopy and spatially resolved readout of Fermi-degenerate strontium in a three-dimensional optical lattice. Here, correlations in the atomic signal between different spatial regions of the sample enable the most rapid evaluation of lattice induced clock shifts and a record fractional frequency precision of $2.5 \times 10^{-19}$. Additionally, spectrally resolved interactions enable us to isolate $n$-atom lattice sites, where we observe the onset of multi-body interactions as both a density-dependent clock shift that is non-linear in the occupation-number, and three-body recombination loss. Furthermore, careful characterization of the lattice potential enables a precise extraction of the two- and three-body interaction parameters. In future work, these techniques can be directly applied to tests of general relativity at the millimeter scale and studies of magnetic correlations in large-spin quantum materials.

Authors

  • Ross B. Hutson

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Akihisa Goban

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • G. Edward Marti

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Sara L. Campbell

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Michael A. Perlin

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Jose P. D'Incao

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Paul S. Julienne

    • Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland
  • Ana Maria Rey

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
  • Jun Ye

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder