An atomic clock on a chip dramatically changes this situation. Put a buckyball timepiece into a chip component that also stores the time of other timepieces when it receives them, and the ...

There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading ...

From space, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a synchronized network, which will support tests of fundamental physics.

Optical atomic clocks can improve time and location accuracy by a factor of ten, enhancing applications such as GPS systems, personal computers, and mobile phones. However, their current size and ...

Atomic clocks are already in use in space, and we are reliant on the technology in our day to day lives. GPS satellites, for example, use atomic clocks to measure location extremely precisely.

“The optical clock community is strongly motivated to obtain the best possible set of measurements before the SI second is ...

However, the atomic clock continues to race ahead, so at least once every 10 years scientists add an extra second to the UTC to keep them closer together. It's particularly important for things ...

Atomic physicist Yuan-Yu Jau and his team are re-imagining exactly how the clocks work to reduce the footprint. The current model, which as been the industry standard for more than a decade, is ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate. In 2003, engineers from Germany and ...

Atomic clocks work by carefully measuring the energy of atoms as they transition from a higher energy state (typically triggered by a laser pulse) to a lower energy state. In some instances, this ...

"We have analyzed in principle which clocks could be theoretically possible," says Prof. Marcus Huber from the Atomic Institute at TU Wien. "Every clock needs two components: first, a time base ...