Physicists’ laser experiment excites atom’s nucleus, may enable new type of atomic clock

A team of researchers successfully raised the energy state of an atom’s nucleus with a laser, which could lead to new precision measurement technology with orders of magnitude higher accuracy than today’s best atomic clocks. The researchers embedded…

​A team of researchers successfully raised the energy state of an atom’s nucleus with a laser, which could lead to new precision measurement technology with orders of magnitude higher accuracy than today’s best atomic clocks. The researchers embedded… A team of researchers successfully raised the energy state of an atom’s nucleus with a laser, which could lead to new precision measurement technology with orders of magnitude higher accuracy than today’s best atomic clocks. The researchers embedded…