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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks


MIT physicists improved the stability of optical atomic clocks by reducing “quantum noise” — a fundamental measurement limitation. The work could enable more precise, portable optical atomic clocks that track even tinier intervals of time, up to 100 trillion times per second.

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