Most accurate optical single-ion clock worldwide

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 15:20 in Physics & Chemistry

Atomic clock experts have built an optical single-ion clock which attains an accuracy which had only been predicted theoretically so far. Their optical ytterbium clock achieved a relative systematic measurement uncertainty of 3 E-18.

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