Optical atomic clocks poised to redefine how the world measures seconds

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...
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This is the "Most Accurate Clock in the World" that took 20 years to build0 0

The world’s most accurate clock now belongs to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its new optical atomic clock, built around a single trapped aluminum ion, can ...

Innovative optical atomic clock could combine single-ion accuracy with multi-ion stability

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...
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U.S. gets hyper-accurate atomic clock, new time standard

As if timekeeping in the U.S. wasn’t already pretty accurate, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just declared a new atomic clock, the NIST-F2, to ...