Nuclear clocks

Nuclear clock ... A nuclear clock or nuclear optical clock is an atomic clock being developed that will use the energy of a nuclear isomeric transition as its ...

Major Leap for Nuclear Clock Paves Way for Ultraprecise Timekeeping

a new type of clock under development — a nuclear clock — could revolutionize how we measure time and probe fundamental physics. An ...

A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock

The current most precise clock in the world sits in the Boulder lab, run by physicist Jun Ye. Instead of being based on the oscillations of ...

Shedding Light on the Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock Isomer

His research interests include the structure of exotic (heavy) nuclei, development of a nuclear clock prototype, radiation detectors for medical physics ...

Frequency ratio of the 229m Th nuclear isomeric transition ... - Nature

Optical atomic clocks use electronic energy levels to precisely keep track of time. A clock based on nuclear energy levels promises a ...

The World's First Nuclear Clock Is Finally Ticking - Scientific American

The world's first nuclear clock, created in Boulder, Colo., by an international team of scientists, was detailed in a paper published in Nature.

Breakthrough promises new era of ultraprecise nuclear clocks

Timekeepers based on energy transitions in atomic nuclei could be stable, portable, and able to probe new physics.

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change ... An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms ...

Webpage of the Thorium Nuclear clock research project

The Thorium nuclear clock project aims to implement a new type of clock – a nuclear clock. In contrast to electron shell levels used in atomic clocks, it uses ...

'Nuclear clock' breakthrough paves the way for super-precise ...

The breakthrough came from probing thorium-229 nuclei with a laser device called a frequency comb. The set-up isn't technically a clock, because ...

Physics breakthrough brings nuclear clock closer to reality - CNN

Scientists are now closer than ever to realizing that level of timekeeping precision, new research has revealed. Such a device would greatly surpass the ...

Nuclear clock ticks ever closer - Physics World

This process helps scientists precisely measure the energy needed to excite the thorium-229 nucleus, a crucial step towards developing a future nuclear clock.

Major leap for nuclear clock paves way for quantum timekeeping

Nuclear clocks, a new kind of quantum technology, could lead to improved timekeeping and navigation, faster internet speeds and advances in ...

Milestone for novel atomic clock | NSF - National Science Foundation

An international research team has taken a decisive step toward a new generation of atomic clocks. By using nuclear, rather than electronic, ...

From atomic to nuclear clocks - CERN Courier

This device (the invention of which was recognised by the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics) is a laser source whose spectrum consists of a series of ...

Scientists move closer to long-theorized ultraprecise nuclear clock

An artist's rendition of the scandium nuclear clock. Scientists excited in the atomic nucleus of scandium the sort of processes that can ...

Crystallizing the Path Toward a Nuclear Clock - Physics Magazine

Researchers have made the most precise measurement to date of the excited nuclear state of thorium-229, a candidate isotope for an ...

ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock - CERN

ISOLDE reports a key step towards building a clock that would be based on a periodic transition between two states of an atomic nucleus.

World's First Ultra-Precise Nuclear Clock Is Within Reach After Major ...

The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries about gravity, ...

Physicists take a major step toward making a nuclear clock

By tweaking the energy of a thorium nucleus with a laser, scientists demonstrated a key step to building clocks based on the physics of ...