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Nature Physics 4, 910 - 911 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1146
Subject Categories: Techniques and instrumentation | Atomic and molecular physics | Quantum physics
Optical lattice clocks: Keeping time in three dimensions
Chris Oates1
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Chris Oates is at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA.
e-mail: oates@boulder.nist.gov
Abstract
The demonstration of an optical clock in which individual atoms are confined in a three-dimensional optical lattice moves us closer to the atomic clockmaker's dream: tens of thousands of isolated atoms that work in parallel.
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