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New near-zero-temperature atomic clock aims to redefine how precisely we measure time
Today’s state-of-the-art optical clocks offer accuracy to 18 decimal places, which is roughly equivalent to measuring the ...
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The strontium clock could redefine how we measure time
An atomic strontium clock ticks 430 trillion times per second, tracking time with precision over billions of years and ...
Physicists at the University of Toronto have developed technology that could power a new generation of optical atomic clocks ...
The field of optical atomic clocks, in combination with ultracold atoms, has transformed precision timekeeping and metrology. By utilising laser-cooled atoms confined in optical lattices, researchers ...
The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks ...
They discovered a way around an important quantum physics law, enabling a future ability to navigate an interstellar journey, ...
As if timekeeping in the U.S. wasn’t already pretty accurate, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just declared a new atomic clock, the NIST-F2, to ...
Vladan Vuletić with members of his Experimental Atomic Physics group. From left to right: Matthew Radzihovsky, Leon Zaporski, Qi Liu, Vladan Vuletić, and Gustavo Velez. Every time you check the time ...
A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of ...
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