Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{171}$Yb Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap

Abstract

The permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the ${}^{171}$Yb $(I=1/2)$ atom is measured with atoms held in an optical dipole trap (ODT). By enabling a cycling transition that is simultaneously spin-selective and spin-preserving, a quantum non-demolition measurement with a spin-detection efficiency of 50$\%$ is realized. A systematic effect due to parity mixing induced by a static E field is observed, and is suppressed by averaging between measurements with ODTs in opposite directions. The coherent spin precession time is found to be much longer than 300 s. The EDM is determined to be $d({}^{171}\mathrm{Yb})=(-6.8\pm 5.1_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm 1.2_{\mathrm{syst}})\times 10^{-27}e\mathrm{cm}$, leading to an upper limit of $|d({}^{171}\mathrm{Yb})|<1.5\times 10^{-26}e\mathrm{cm}$ ($95\%$ C.L.). These measurement techniques can be adapted to search for the EDM of ${}^{225}$Ra.

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