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A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...
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Researchers Demonstrate Integrated Stabilized Laser Chips Performing Clock And Quantum Operations On A Room Temperature Trapped Ion Qubit

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have, for the first time, demonstrated a chip-scale, stabilized, visible light laser that drives a trapped ion atomic ...
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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks

Vladan Vuletić with members of his Experimental Atomic Physics group. From left to right: Matthew Radzihovsky, Leon Zaporski, Qi Liu, Vladan Vuletić, and Gustavo Velez. Every time you check the time ...
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Explainer: What is an atomic clock and why it is crucial for navigation satellites

Ten years after it was placed in orbit as part of the four-spacecraft Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, the IRNSS-1F’s onboard imported atomic clock, a critical component for providing ...