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most citedA continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet laser for the nuclear clock

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physics.atom-ph2026★ 1 cited

A nuclear clock synchronized to Th

Beichen Huang, Gaowei Yan, Qi Xiao +37

Atomic clocks have made time and frequency the most precisely measured quantities in physics, progressing from microwave standards that realize the SI second to optical clocks with…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Direct Nuclear-Level Qubits using Trapped Th-229 Ions: A Platform for Entanglement and Universal Quantum Information Processing

Jingbo Wang, Haixing Miao, Shiqian Ding +1

The low-energy isomeric transition in Thorium-229 offers a unique interface between nuclear and atomic physics, presenting a resource for quantum technologies that is notably resil…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 3 cited

A cryogenic Paul trap for probing the nuclear isomeric excited state Th

Daniel Moritz, Kevin Scharl, Markus Wiesinger +16

While laser excitation of the nuclear isomeric transition in Th has been recently achieved for thorium atoms embedded in large-bandgap crystals, laser excitation and charac…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 5 cited

A continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet laser for the nuclear clock

Qi Xiao, Gleb Penyazkov, Xiangliang Li +14

The exceptionally low-energy isomeric transition in Th at around 148.4 nm offers a unique opportunity for coherent nuclear control and the realisation of a nuclear clock. R…

physics.atom-ph2025

Theoretical study of transition matrix elements in cadmium for vacuum-ultraviolet generation in Th nuclear clock applications

Gleb Penyazkov, Yanmei Yu, Leonid V. Skripnikov +1

The relativistic Fock-space coupled-cluster methods are applied to the cadmium atom. A large number of transition energies and matrix elements are calculated for the $ ^{…

physics.atom-ph2024

Proposal for the generation of continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet laser light for Th-229 isomer precision spectroscopy

Qi Xiao, Gleb Penyazkov, Ruihan Yu +6

We propose to generate continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser light at 148.4 nm using four-wave mixing in cadmium vapor for precision spectroscopy of the Th-229 isomer tran…