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Keeping time in three dimensions

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Author(s)

Christopher W. Oates

Abstract

Here I review a paper by Akatsuka et al. that appears in the current volume of Nature Physics. This work describes their latest experimental results on optical lattice clocks, including the first demonstration of a 3-D lattice clock.
Citation
Nature Physics
Volume
4
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

atomic collisions, optical frequency standards, optical lattices
Physics

Citation

Oates, C. (2008), Keeping time in three dimensions, Nature Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=900870 (Accessed October 22, 2025)

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Created December 1, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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