Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Isotope dependence of the Zeeman effect in lithium-like calcium

  • Florian Köhler,
  • Klaus Blaum,
  • Michael Block,
  • Stanislav Chenmarev,
  • Sergey Eliseev,
  • Dmitry A. Glazov,
  • Mikhail Goncharov,
  • Jiamin Hou,
  • Anke Kracke,
  • Dmitri A. Nesterenko,
  • Yuri N. Novikov,
  • Wolfgang Quint,
  • Enrique Minaya Ramirez,
  • Vladimir M. Shabaev,
  • Sven Sturm,
  • Andrey V. Volotka,
  • Günter Werth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10246
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In addition to hyperfine splitting effects, isotope shifts of atomic electronic energy levels allow the investigation nuclear properties. Here, the authors study the isotope dependence of the Zeeman effect in litihium-like calcium isotopes in a Penning-trap setup and find good agreement with QED calculations.