Fürst, H.A.; Yeh, C.-H.; Kalincev, D.; Kulosa, A.P.; Dreissen, L.S.; Lange, R.; Benkler, E.; Huntemann, N.; Peik, E.; Mehlstäubler, T.E.
(College Park, MD : American Physical Society, 2020)
We report on the first coherent excitation of the highly forbidden S21/2?F27/2 electric octupole (E3) transition in a single trapped Yb+172 ion, an isotope without nuclear spin. Using the transition in Yb+171 as a reference, ...