Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the ...
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Nuclear clock breakthrough to benefit navigation, communication, and disaster prediction
A recent study published in Nature details a significant advancement in the creation of practical nuclear clocks. Researchers have devised a new technique to observe the thorium-229 nucleus's "ticking ...
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new type of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies. The device could allow ...
Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...
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