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We discuss techniques that allow for long coherence times in laser spectroscopy experiments with two trapped ions. We show that for this purpose not only entangled ions prepared in decoherence-free subspaces can be used but also a pair of ions that are not entangled but subject to the same kind of phase noise. We apply this technique to a measurement of the electric quadrupole moment of the 3d2D5/2 state of 40Ca+ and to a measurement of the line width of an ultra-stable laser exciting a pair of 40Ca+ ions.
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Chwalla, M., Kim, K., Monz, T. et al. Precision spectroscopy with two correlated atoms. Appl. Phys. B 89, 483–488 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-007-2867-4
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