The route to atomic and quantum standards

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5700, 2004, Pages 1324-1330

  Flowers, Jeff ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; STANDARDS;

ARTIFACT STANDARDS; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; QUANTUM STANDARDS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTIFACT; ATOM; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; METROLOGY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; SCIENCE; STANDARD;

EID: 8844227479     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102156     Document Type: Review

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