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most citedOptical clocks based on the Cf and Cf ions

42 citations · 193 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.atom-ph2025

Portal for High-Precision Atomic Data and Computation

Amani Kiruga, Charles Cheung, Dmytro Filin +6

We've developed a scalable and sustainable online atomic data portal with an automated interface for easy update and addition of new data. The current portal provides energies, tra…

physics.atom-ph2025

Polarizabilities of low-lying states of silver

S. G. Porsev, D. Filin, C. Cheung +1

Assembly of ultracold polar molecules containing silver (Ag) from laser-cooled atoms requires knowledge of the dynamic polarizabilities of Ag at convenient laser wavelengths. We pr…

physics.atom-ph2025

A neural-network-based Python package for performing large-scale atomic CI using pCI and other high-performance atomic codes

Pavlo Bilous, Charles Cheung, Marianna Safronova

Modern atomic physics applications in science and technology pose ever higher demands on the precision of computations of properties of atoms and ions. Especially challenging is th…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Multimessenger Astronomy Beyond the Standard Model: New Window from Quantum Sensors

Jason Arakawa, Muhammad H. Zaheer, Volodymyr Takhistov +3

Ultralight bosonic (ULB) fields with mass ~eV often arise in theories beyond the Standard Model (SM). If such fields exist, violent astrophysical events that result in e…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 15 cited

pCI: a parallel configuration interaction software package for high-precision atomic structure calculations

Charles Cheung, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Sergey G. Porsev +3

We introduce the pCI software package for high-precision atomic structure calculations. The standard method of calculation is based on the configuration interaction (CI) method to…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 8 cited

Pr10+ as a candidate for a high-accuracy optical clock for tests of fundamental physics

S. G. Porsev, C. Cheung, M. S. Safronova +4

We propose In-like Pr10+ as a candidate for the development of a high-accuracy optical clock with high sensitivity to a time variation of the fine-structure constant, (\dot alpha}/…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 13 cited

High-Precision Transition Energy Measurements of Neon-like Fe XVII Ions

Chintan Shah, Moto Togawa, Marc Botz +15

We improve by a factor of 4-20 the energy accuracy of the strongest soft X-ray transitions of Fe XVII ions by resonantly exciting them in an electron beam ion trap with a monochrom…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 14 cited

Optical Telecommunications-Band Clock based on Neutral Titanium Atoms

Scott Eustice, Dmytro Filin, Jackson Schrott +5

We propose an optical clock based on narrow, spin-forbidden M1 and E2 transitions in laser-cooled neutral titanium. These transitions exhibit much smaller black body radiation shif…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 18 cited

State-Insensitive Trapping of Alkaline-Earth Atoms in a Nanofiber-Based Optical Dipole Trap

K. Ton, G. Kestler, D. Filin +7

Neutral atoms trapped in the evanescent optical potentials of nanotapered optical fibers are a promising platform for developing quantum technologies and exploring fundamental scie…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 5 cited

Prospects of a thousand-ion Sn Coulomb-crystal clock with sub- inaccuracy

David R. Leibrandt, Sergey G. Porsev, Charles Cheung +1

We propose a many-ion optical atomic clock based on three-dimensional Coulomb crystals of order one thousand Sn ions confined in a linear RF Paul trap. Sn has a uniqu…

physics.atom-ph2022

Calculation of energies and hyperfine structure constants of 233U^+ and 233U

S. G. Porsev, C. Cheung, M. S. Safronova

We carried out calculations of the energies and magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants of the low-lying states of 233U^+ and 233U using two different approaches. With six va…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 36 cited

New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

Steffen Kühn, Charles Cheung, Natalia S. Oreshkina +19

One of the most enduring and intensively studied problems of X-ray astronomy is the disagreement of state-of-the art theory and observations for the intensity ratio of two Fe XVII…

physics.atom-ph2021

Low-lying energy levels of ^{229}Th35+ and the electronic bridge process

S. G. Porsev, C. Cheung, M. S. Safronova

The nuclear transition between the ground and the low-energy isomeric state in the ^{229}Th nucleus is of interest due to its high sensitivity to a hypothetical temporal variation…

physics.atom-ph2021

Scalable codes for precision calculations of properties of complex atomic systems

C. Cheung, M. S. Safronova, S. G. Porsev

High precision atomic data is indispensable for experiments involving studies of fundamental interactions, astrophysics, atomic clocks, plasma science, and others. We develop new p…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 42 cited

Optical clocks based on the Cf and Cf ions

S. G. Porsev, U. I. Safronova, M. S. Safronova +4

Recent experimental progress in cooling, trapping, and quantum logic spectroscopy of highly-charged ions (HCIs) made HCIs accessible for high resolution spectroscopy and precision…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 41 cited

High Resolution Photoexcitation Measurements Exacerbate the Long-Standing Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

Steffen Kühn, Chintan Shah, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia +29

For more than 40 years, most astrophysical observations and laboratory studies of two key soft x-ray diagnostic transitions, and , in Fe XVII ions found oscillator…