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author Liu, Peifan
Gerharz, Miriam
Marx-Glowna, Berit
Hippler, Willi
Pudell, Jan-Etienne
Zozulya, Alexey
Stone, Brandon
Shu, Deming
Loetzsch, Robert
Sadashivaiah, Sakshath
Bocklage, Lars
Boemer, Christina
Liu, Shan
Kocharyan, Vitaly
Krebs, Dietrich
Long, Tianyun
Qin, Weilun
Scholz, Matthias
Schlage, Kai
Sergeev, Ilya
Wille, Hans-Christian
Boesenberg, Ulrike
Geloni, Gianluca Aldo
Hallmann, Jörg
Jo, Wonhyuk
Kujala, Naresh
Madsen, Anders
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Angel
Rysov, Rustam
Tasca, Kelin
Kolodziej, Tomasz
Zhang, Xiwen
Ilchen, Markus
Wieland, Niclas
Huber, Günter
Edgar, James H.
Evers, Jörg
Kocharovskaya, Olga
Röhlsberger, Ralf
Shvyd'ko, Yuri
author_facet Liu, Peifan
Gerharz, Miriam
Marx-Glowna, Berit
Hippler, Willi
Pudell, Jan-Etienne
Zozulya, Alexey
Stone, Brandon
Shu, Deming
Loetzsch, Robert
Sadashivaiah, Sakshath
Bocklage, Lars
Boemer, Christina
Liu, Shan
Kocharyan, Vitaly
Krebs, Dietrich
Long, Tianyun
Qin, Weilun
Scholz, Matthias
Schlage, Kai
Sergeev, Ilya
Wille, Hans-Christian
Boesenberg, Ulrike
Geloni, Gianluca Aldo
Hallmann, Jörg
Jo, Wonhyuk
Kujala, Naresh
Madsen, Anders
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Angel
Rysov, Rustam
Tasca, Kelin
Kolodziej, Tomasz
Zhang, Xiwen
Ilchen, Markus
Wieland, Niclas
Huber, Günter
Edgar, James H.
Evers, Jörg
Kocharovskaya, Olga
Röhlsberger, Ralf
Shvyd'ko, Yuri
contents The $^{45}$Sc nuclear transition from the ground to the isomeric state at 12.389~keV, with a lifetime of 0.46~s, exhibits an extraordinarily narrow natural width of 1.4~feV and a quality factor $\simeq 10^{19}$ -- surpassing those of the most precise atomic clocks -- making $^{45}$Sc a compelling platform for advanced metrology and nuclear clocks. Here we investigate how closely the spectral width and quality factor of the solid-state $^{45}$Sc resonance can approach these natural limits. Using the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser, we confirm the isomer's lifetime via time-delayed incoherent $K_{α,β}$ fluorescence and observe previously unreported elastic fluorescence, yielding a partial internal conversion coefficient of 390(60). The absence of a clear nuclear forward scattering signal beyond a 2-ms delay implies environmental broadening of at least $500~Γ_{0}$ under experimental conditions, placing bounds on solid-state decoherence mechanisms. These findings set new experimental benchmarks for solid-state nuclear clock development.
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spellingShingle Probing the Linewidth of the 12.4-keV Solid-State $^{45}$Sc Isomeric Resonance
Liu, Peifan
Gerharz, Miriam
Marx-Glowna, Berit
Hippler, Willi
Pudell, Jan-Etienne
Zozulya, Alexey
Stone, Brandon
Shu, Deming
Loetzsch, Robert
Sadashivaiah, Sakshath
Bocklage, Lars
Boemer, Christina
Liu, Shan
Kocharyan, Vitaly
Krebs, Dietrich
Long, Tianyun
Qin, Weilun
Scholz, Matthias
Schlage, Kai
Sergeev, Ilya
Wille, Hans-Christian
Boesenberg, Ulrike
Geloni, Gianluca Aldo
Hallmann, Jörg
Jo, Wonhyuk
Kujala, Naresh
Madsen, Anders
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Angel
Rysov, Rustam
Tasca, Kelin
Kolodziej, Tomasz
Zhang, Xiwen
Ilchen, Markus
Wieland, Niclas
Huber, Günter
Edgar, James H.
Evers, Jörg
Kocharovskaya, Olga
Röhlsberger, Ralf
Shvyd'ko, Yuri
Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Nuclear Experiment
Optics
The $^{45}$Sc nuclear transition from the ground to the isomeric state at 12.389~keV, with a lifetime of 0.46~s, exhibits an extraordinarily narrow natural width of 1.4~feV and a quality factor $\simeq 10^{19}$ -- surpassing those of the most precise atomic clocks -- making $^{45}$Sc a compelling platform for advanced metrology and nuclear clocks. Here we investigate how closely the spectral width and quality factor of the solid-state $^{45}$Sc resonance can approach these natural limits. Using the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser, we confirm the isomer's lifetime via time-delayed incoherent $K_{α,β}$ fluorescence and observe previously unreported elastic fluorescence, yielding a partial internal conversion coefficient of 390(60). The absence of a clear nuclear forward scattering signal beyond a 2-ms delay implies environmental broadening of at least $500~Γ_{0}$ under experimental conditions, placing bounds on solid-state decoherence mechanisms. These findings set new experimental benchmarks for solid-state nuclear clock development.
title Probing the Linewidth of the 12.4-keV Solid-State $^{45}$Sc Isomeric Resonance
topic Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Nuclear Experiment
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17538