Aug 30, 2024
New Sisyphus cooling technique could enhance precision of atomic clocks
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: particle physics
Researchers in the Neutral Atom Optical Clocks Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado and Pennsylvania State University recently devised a new sub-recoil Sisyphus cooling technique that could help to improve the precision of atomic clocks.