These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its ...
World's first thorium-229 nuclear clock shows potential for ultra-precise timekeeping and fundamental physics tests.
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First nuclear atomic clock has been used to investigate the properties of dark matter
Back in 2024, a joint collaboration of researchers from TU Wien in Austria and the National Institute of Standards and ...
A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually ...
A string of experiments using thorium-229 nuclei has brought the long-theorized nuclear clock closer to reality, producing frequency measurements stable enough to challenge the atomic clocks that ...
In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...
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World’s first working nuclear clocks built with thorium nucleus after decades of effort
For decades, nuclear clocks have existed as one of physics’ most tempting promises. A ...
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to the changing numbers on a ...
Since May 2024, we have accumulated a database of 73 line scans at temperatures ranging from 134 K to 294 K across the three crystals. In the following, we characterize the reproducibility of the ...
Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and emit photons like electrons in an atom do. This ...
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