For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics ...

New theoretical physics research introduces a simulation method of machine-learning-based effective Hamiltonian for ...

The exotic material is built from atomic planes composed of Vanadium atoms arranged on a so-called kagome lattice—a pattern of interlaced triangles and hexagons—stacked on top of one another, with ...

En-route to nuclear clocks, researchers have found a resonant mode in thorium atom nuclei with a low temperature coefficient - nuclear oscillators are ...

Researchers have taken atomic diffraction to a new level, revealing surprising behaviors in high-energy helium and hydrogen ...

The reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the biggest challenges in science, one that ...

However, atomic clocks are now reaching unprecedented precision ... The first issue they focused on was to uniquely distinguish gravitational effects in an optical lattice clock from other noise ...

For one effect, as the crystal warmed, it expanded, subtly altering the atomic lattice and shifting the electric field gradients experienced by the thorium nuclei. This electric field gradient ...

Kyoto-based precision equipment manufacturer Shimadzu Corporation has begun selling the world's most accurate commercially available timepiece -- a strontium optical lattice clock with a deviation of ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of ...