Analysis of a magnetically trapped atom clock

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D. Kadio¹ and Y. B. Band^1,2
¹Departments of Chemistry and Electro-Optics, and The Ilse Katz Center for Nano-Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
²Atomic Physics Division, A267 Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA

Received 8 May 2006; revised 15 September 2006; published 8 November 2006

Weconsider optimization of a rubidium atom clock that uses magneticallytrapped Bose condensed atoms in a highly elongated trap, anddetermine the optimal conditions for minimum Allan variance of theclock using microwave Ramsey fringe spectroscopy. Elimination of magnetic fieldshifts and collisional shifts are considered. The effects of spin-dipolarrelaxation are addressed in the optimization of the clock. Wefind that for the interstate interaction strength equal to orlarger than the intrastate interaction strengths, a modulational instability resultsin phase separation and symmetry breaking of the two-component condensatecomposed of the ground and excited hyperfine clock levels, andthis mechanism limits the clock accuracy.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053609
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053609
PACS:	03.75.Nt; 03.75.Kk; 03.75.Mn; 06.30.Ft 03.75.Nt Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena 03.75.Kk Dynamic properties of Bose-Einstein condensates; collective and hydrodynamic excitations, superfluid flow 03.75.Mn Multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates; spinor condensates 06.30.Ft Time and frequency measurement YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	rubidium, atomic clocks, radiation pressure, Bose-Einstein condensation, microwave spectra, spectral line shift

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