Performance of a 229Thorium solid-state nuclear clock

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kazakov, G A ^a,b   Litvinov, A N ^b   Romanenko, V I ^c   Yatsenko, L P ^c   Romanenko, A V ^d   Schreitl, M ^a   Winkler, G ^a   Schumm, T ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCK TRANSITION; DECOHERENCE; FRACTIONAL INSTABILITY; LINE SHIFTS; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; NUCLEAR ISOMERS; NUCLEAR MOMENT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARD; OPTIMIZED OPERATIONS; QUANTUM OSCILLATORS; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

CALCIUM FLUORIDE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THORIUM;

CLOCKS;

EID: 84865222240     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/083019     Document Type: Article

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