World's first compact and robust high-precision optical lattice clock with a 250L volume successfully developed
An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current ...
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Successful development of the world’s first compact and robust high-precision optical lattice clock with a 250-L volume
A Japanese research team led by Professor Hidetoshi Katori at The University of Tokyo, has achieved a groundbreaking ...
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Pentagon’s new move aims to field atomic clock faster with defense systems
The Department of Defense has awarded quantum technology firm Infleqtion an $11 million contract to help it speed up the ...
Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Accurate Clock. It Could Be a Turning Point for Humanity.
The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...
New laser technique achieves atomic-scale precision on diamond surfaces
Imagine placing an object under a microscope and pressing a button to rearrange the surface atoms with atomic-scale precision ...
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100 Year Old Atomic Clock
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 ...
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The tale of two clocks: Advancing the precision of timekeeping
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 ...
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Successful development of the world’s first compact and robust high-precision
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 ...
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vPRTC Architecture for Resilient Timing
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 ...
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Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock
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 ...
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Possibilities open up in time
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 ...