An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that ... measurement of atomic clock transitions, along with the laser and control system used for trapping and spectroscopy of atoms, was ...

MIT physicists have taken the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space. Their findings, ...

They were aware that by turning on an optical lattice (i.e., a laser-made egg carton–like box), using it to pin atoms and ...

Swinburne researchers have discovered unexpected and entirely new quantum behaviors that only occur in one-dimensional ...

According to the Kyoto-based company, its compact optical lattice timepiece, released on March 5, is a kind of strontium atom clock. Using a specialized laser beam called the “magic wavelength ...

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...

There is a clock called the "optical lattice clock." First, each atom cooled by laser is captured in a 3-D micro space (optical lattice), which is created by interference of laser beams with special ...

By tightly confining ytterbium in the ideal potential of a magic-wavelength optical lattice, the lattice clock pushes the frontiers of atomic timekeeping. We explore enhanced quantum control, ...

Now, to overcome the challenge, the team developed a new approach called atom-resolved microscopy, which begins by allowing a ...

A feedback loop is also used to stabilize the 578-nm laser frequency to the clock ... suggesting that optical lattice clocks will soon be challenging the performance of the best trapped-ion ...