Suppression of Black-body Radiation Induced Zeeman Shifts in the Optical Clocks due to the Fine-structure Intramanifold Resonances

TL;DR

This paper investigates how fine-structure intramanifold resonances suppress blackbody radiation-induced Zeeman shifts in optical clocks, especially in Al$^+$ ions, leading to more accurate frequency measurements.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous analysis of BBRz shifts considering intramanifold resonances and demonstrates their significant suppression in optical clock transitions.

Findings

BBRz shift is highly suppressed due to intramanifold resonances.

Resonances cause a reversal in temperature dependence of the shift.

Shifts are reduced to micro-hertz levels, below 10^{-20} fractional uncertainty.

Abstract

The roles of the fine-structure intramanifold resonances to the Zeeman shifts caused by the blackbody radiation (BBRz shifts) in the optical clock transitions are analyzed. The clock frequency measurement in the $^1S_0-^3P_0$ clock transition of the singly charged aluminium ion (Al$^+$) has already been reached the $10^{-19}$ level at which the BBRz effect can be significant in determining the uncertainty. In view of this, we probe first the BBRz shift in this transition rigorously and demonstrate the importance of the contributions from the intramanifold resonances explicitly. To carry out the analysis, we determine the dynamic magnetic dipole (M1) polarizabilities of the clock states over a wide range of angular frequencies by employing two variants of relativistic many-body methods. This showed the BBRz shift is highly suppressed due to blue-detuning of the BBR spectrum to the $^3P_0-^3P_1$ fine-structure intramanifold resonance in Al$^+$ and it fails to follow the usually assumed static M1 polarizability limit in the estimation of the BBRz shift. The resonance also leads to a reversal behavior of the temperature dependence and a cancellation in the shift. After learning this behavior, we extended our analyses to other optical clocks and found that these shifts are of the order of micro-hertz leading to fractional shifts in the clock transitions at the $10^{-20}$ level or below.