COLORADO, United States, August 11 – A team of researchers led by John Ye, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, United States, has developed an extremely accurate atomic clock.
This technique uses an optical grating to trap thousands of atoms with visible light waves and makes the most precise measurements to date.
Speaking to Physical Review Letters, the academic highlighted that the device is capable of detecting small effects predicted by the general theory of relativity.
Its operation relies on an optical network called the “optical network”, which simultaneously measures tens of thousands of strontium particles.
The scientist said that the more compounds that are quantified, the more data will be generated and will provide a more accurate measurement of the second.
Unlike microwave clocks, many expect this innovation to provide greater accuracy for international timekeeping, with a potential delay of just one second every 30 billion years.
In this sense, the equipment promises significant improvements in areas such as spatial navigation and item search. (Text and image: Copasi)
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