Measurement of the Hyperfine Quenching Rate of the Clock Transition in ${}^{171}$Yb

C. -Y. Xu, J. Singh, J. C. Zappala +8

We report the first experimental determination of the hyperfine quenching rate of the $6s^2{}^1{S}_0(F=1/2)-6s6p{}^3{P}_0(F=1/2)$ transition in ${}^{171}$Yb with nuclear spin $…