Optical clocks coming of age

Patrick Gill ()
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Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6804, 579-580

Abstract: An optical clock is being developed that could possibly replace the standard caesium atomic clock. This new clock could one day tell time to a precision of 1 part in 1018; caesium clocks have a precision of ‘only’ 1 part in 1015.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35036680

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