An optimized ion trap geometry to measure quadrupole shifts of <sup>171</sup>Yb<sup>+</sup> clocks

An optimized ion trap geometry to measure quadrupole shifts of ¹⁷¹Yb⁺ clocks

Batra N^{1, 2}, Sahoo B K³, De S^{1, 2, †,}

Fractional electric quadrupole shifts due to the multipoles up to k = 10 for the (a) E2 and (b) E3 transitions. The ion is off centered by a distance of 0.1 μm (green) and 10 μm (black). The harmonic potential gives a spatially independent |Δν_Q/ν_o|. The reported fractional accuracies lie within the grey bands and so far the best accuracies are 1.1 × 10⁻¹⁶^[8] and 5 × 10⁻¹⁷^[18] for the E2 and E3 transitions, respectively.