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Ytterbium optical clock design could sharpen tests of fundamental physics
A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...
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Japanese scientists make ytterbium atomic clock that could detect dark matter
Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which ...
A research team led by Prof. Chang Hong from the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a strontium optical lattice clock with both frequency ...
Tucked away in a vault in France is a weight made of platinum and iridium, diligently cared for by a team of highly trained specialists. Its sole purpose is to be, to sit and remain unchanging as the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and Harvard scientists have built the world’s most precise optical clock, surpassing the quantum limit with entangled atoms ...
The clock itself is what’s known as a strontium optical lattice clock. Researchers in China have built one of the most ...
The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could ...
A research team led by Ji Peng Jia of the University of Science and Technology of China has reported improvements to a strontium optical lattice clock that has been in use at the university, reducing ...
A compact optical lattice clock with a volume of 250 liters has been developed. The system includes a physics package for conducting spectroscopy on the clock transition within a vacuum chamber, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the biggest challenges in science, one that continues to ...
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 ...
Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But scientists at MIT and Harvard have just taken precision to an entirely new ...
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