Measurement and cancellation of the cold collision frequency shift in an 87Rb fountain clock

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Fertig, C [1 ]
Gibble, K [1 ]
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[1] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1622
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O4 [物理学];
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We measure a cold collision frequency shift in an Rb-87 fountain clock that is fractionally 30 times smaller than that for Cs. The shift is -0.38(8) mHz for a density of 1.0(6) X 10(9) cm(-3). We study the cavity pulling of the atomic transition and use it to cancel the cold collision shift. We also measure the partial frequency shifts of each clock state finding 2(lambda(10) - lambda(20))/(lambda(10) + lambda(20)) = 0-1(6).
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