Tag: #thorium229

Thorium‑229 Nuclear Clocks Demonstrated in Vienna and Beijing; Vienna Shows First Self‑Stabilizing Prototype

Teams in Vienna and Beijing report operational thorium‑229 nuclear clocks; Vienna's device is the first self‑stabilizing prototype, running >24 hours.

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Two Independent Teams Demonstrate Operational Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

Two independent teams report operational thorium-229 nuclear clocks, locking lasers to a nuclear transition and advancing compact, reproducible nuclear timekeeping.

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Preprint reports operation of thorium-229 nuclear clock locked to nuclear transition in crystal

A June 7 arXiv preprint claims operation of a thorium-229 nuclear clock by locking a 148.4 nm VUV laser to a nuclear transition in a thorium-doped crystal.

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