Tag Archive for 'Atomic clock'

The next leap second will be inserted on December 31, 2016. This will be the 27th leap second added since their adoption in 1972. Image credit: National Physical Laboratory.

2016 Gets Longer with Extra Second Added to New Year Countdown

Dec 23, 2016 by News Staff

This New Year’s countdown will be one second longer as the National Physical Laboratory — the UK’s national measurement institute and the birthplace...

JILA’s atomic clock based on strontium atoms held in a lattice of laser light is the world’s most precise and stable atomic clock. Image credit: Jun Ye et al / Baxley / JILA.

Strontium Atomic Clock Most Precise Timekeeping Device Yet, Say Scientists

Apr 22, 2015 by News Staff

The experimental strontium lattice clock at JILA, a joint institute of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado...

NIST-F1 Cesium fountain atomic clock, serving as the U.S. time and frequency standard. Image credit: NIST.

New Technique Could Make Atomic Clocks More Accurate

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of physicists led by Prof Vladan Vuletic of MIT has developed a novel technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using...