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A metastable state in with lifetime greater than 10 minutes
Hassan Farhat, William Liu, Wesley C. Campbell
We find through direct, time-domain measurement of trapped ions that the excited state has a collision-free lifetime of 17.8(6) min, long enoug…
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Sub-hertz optical transitions in excited Yb
Patrick McMillin, Hassan Farhat, William Liu +1
We present the observation of three semi-forbidden transitions in singly-ionized ytterbium from the metastable state. Owing to the long lifetimes of both t…