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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 ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Harold Lyons was a physicist whose primary interest was in atomic frequency standards and atomic clocks. The collection documents Lyons and his ...
The U.K.’s successful testing of quantum atomic clocks aboard submarines provides validation for further research in quantum ...
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