Sentences with phrase «ytterbium clocks»

The team has created twin ytterbium clocks that are stable to one part in a quintillion (1018).

And an ytterbium clock has the potential to be even more accurate and stable than the cesium chronometer.

But there is a catch: the ytterbium clock is still not as accurate as the caesium one.

Not exact matches

Their qubits are made from ytterbium ions held in place by magnetic fields and lasers, a technology with its origins in atomic clocks.

A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, says that ytterbium could find a role in super-accurate atomic clocks.

To create a more precise atomic clock, Ludlow's team first used green and blue lasers to cool bundles of ytterbium atoms to 10 millikelvin, or within 10 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.