Sentences with phrase «rubidium atomic»

Not exact matches

These rubidium atoms in conjunction with the lasers provide an «optical atomic clock» that works according to a different physical principle that the quartz clock and «ticks» about ten million times faster than the quartz unit.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a compact atomic clock design that relies on cold rubidium atoms instead of the usual hot atoms, a switch that promises improved precision and stability.

«We catch hundreds of Rubidium atoms in a magnetic trap and cool them so that they form an ultracold Bose - Einstein condensate,» says Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics at the Vienna University of Technology.