arXiv:2110.00043 · Physical Review A
Measurement of the tune-out wavelength for Cs133 at 880 nm
Apichayaporn Ratkata, Philip D. Gregory, Andrew D. Innes, Alex J. Matthies, Lewis A. McArd, Jonathan M. Mortlock, Marianna S. Safronova, Sarah Bromley, Simon L. Cornish
Abstract
We perform a measurement of the tune-out wavelength, ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}$, between the ${D}_{1}$, ${6}^{2}{S}_{1/2}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{6}^{2}{P}_{1/2}$, and ${D}_{2}$, ${6}^{2}{S}_{1/2}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{6}^{2}{P}_{3/2}$, transitions for $^{133}\mathrm{Cs}$ in the ground hyperfine state $(F=3,{m}_{F}=+3)$. At ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}$, the frequency-dependent scalar polarizability is zero leading to a zero scalar ac Stark shift. We measure the polarizability as a function of wavelength using Kapitza-Dirac scattering of a $^{133}\mathrm{Cs}$ Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice, and determine the tune-out wavelength to be ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}=880.21790{(40)}_{\text{stat}}{(8)}_{\text{sys}}$ nm. From this measurement we determine the ratio of reduced matrix elements to be ${|\ensuremath{\langle}6{P}_{3/2}\ensuremath{\parallel}d\ensuremath{\parallel}6{S}_{1/2}\ensuremath{\rangle}|}^{2}/{|\ensuremath{\langle}6{P}_{1/2}\ensuremath{\parallel}d\ensuremath{\parallel}6{S}_{1/2}\ensuremath{\rangle}|}^{2}=1.9808(2)$. This represents an improvement of a factor of 10 over previous results derived from excited-state lifetime measurements. We use the present measurement as a benchmark test of high-precision theory.