Nuclear spin quenching of the ${}^2{S}_{1/2}\to {}^2{F}_{7/2}$ electric octupole transition in ${}^{173}$Yb${}^{+}$

Jialiang Yu, Anand Prakash, Clara Zyskind +4

We report the coherent excitation of the highly forbidden ${}^2{S}_{1/2}\to {}^2{F}_{7/2}$ clock transition in the odd isotope ${}^{173}{\mathrm{Yb}}^{+}$ with nuclear spin $I=5/2$,…