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Prospects for optical clocks combining high sensitivity to new physics with insensitivity to perturbations: The case of Sb+, Au+, and Hg2+

Saleh O. Allehabi1,2, V. A. Dzuba1, and V. V. Flambaum1

  • 1School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
  • 2Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Madina 42351, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 063103 – Published 8 June, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.063103

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Our study is motivated by the prospect of several metastable states in the Sb+, Au+, and Hg2+ ions being used as possible candidates for optical clocks. We calculate several atomic properties relevant to the development of optical clocks for those clock transitions using two different approaches of relativistic many-body calculations, i.e., configuration interaction with single-double coupled-cluster method and configuration interaction with perturbation theory method. Our results demonstrate that the relative blackbody radiation shifts for these transitions are small, ∼10−16. It is also found that there is considerable sensitivity to new physics, as evidenced by a significant enhancement of the effect of the time variation of the fine-structure constant α on the frequencies of the clock transitions. The corresponding factor ranges from −5.56 to 2.20. Our results are compared with available previous data.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 063103– Published 8 June, 2023
  • Received 29 March 2023
  • Accepted 24 May 2023
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