Physicists Build First Functional Clocks Powered by Atomic Nuclei Using Thorium-229
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Michelle Starr
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Physicists have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by building the world's first functional clocks powered by atomic nuclei rather than electron oscillations. Using thorium-229 atoms, two independent teams in Europe and China successfully created nuclear clocks that operate on energy shifts within atomic nuclei. This achievement, detailed in preprints on arXiv, represents decades of research and could redefine the limits of precision timekeeping, potentially surpassing the accuracy of current atomic clocks.
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A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time.
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