An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current ...

A Japanese research team led by Professor Hidetoshi Katori at The University of Tokyo, has achieved a groundbreaking ...

The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...

Advancements in nuclear clocks using thorium-229 promise to redefine precision timekeeping, revolutionising technology.

Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ...

their clock could beat a benchmark for precision called the "standard quantum limit"—what physicist Adam Kaufman refers to as ...

Optical atomic clocks function not through gears and pendulums but through the orchestrated rhythms between atoms and excitation laser. QPN poses a fundamental obstacle to the precision of these ...

High-precision atomic clocks provide long-term stability to hold time independently from GNSS. Fully autonomous atomic clocks are the heartbeat of vPRTC resiliency. GNSS plus atomic clocks combine to ...

Optical lattice clock (1) is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current standard for defining “seconds ...

covering different types of oscillators and atomic clocks, and their uses. The precision of atomic clocks and the atomic time scale are considered in the context of fundamental physical research, with ...

Atomic clocks use the oscillations of atoms ... capable of measuring to a fractional uncertainty of 10-18. At this clock precision, physicists can observe Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...