Abstract
We report on the observation and coherent excitation of atoms on the narrow inner-shell orbital transition, connecting the erbium ground state to the excited state . This transition corresponds to a wavelength of 1299 nm and is optically closed. We perform high-resolution spectroscopy to extract the factor of the 1299-nm state and to determine the frequency shift for four bosonic isotopes. We further demonstrate coherent control of the atomic state and extract a lifetime of 178(19) ms, which corresponds to a linewidth of 0.9(1) Hz. The experimental findings are in good agreement with our semi-empirical model. In addition, we present theoretical calculations of the atomic polarizability, revealing several different magic-wavelength conditions. Finally, we make use of the vectorial polarizability and confirm a possible magic wavelength at 532 nm.
- Received 4 May 2021
- Accepted 30 July 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033256
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