Abstract
We perform precision microwave spectroscopy—aided by Stark deceleration—to reveal the low-magnetic-field behavior of OH in its rovibronic ground state, identifying two field-insensitive hyperfine transitions suitable as qubits and determining a differential Landé factor of between opposite-parity components of the doublet. The data are successfully modeled with an effective hyperfine Zeeman Hamiltonian, which we use to make a tenfold improvement of the magnetically sensitive, astrophysically important satellite-line frequencies, yielding and .
- Received 18 August 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.061402
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