{"id":135138,"date":"2022-02-03T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-atomic-clock-is-the-most-precise-ever-created"},"modified":"2022-02-03T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:22:19","slug":"new-atomic-clock-is-the-most-precise-ever-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-atomic-clock-is-the-most-precise-ever-created","title":{"rendered":"New atomic clock is the most precise ever created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-atomic-clock-is-the-most-precise-ever-created3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If scientists could measure the oscillations of just one energized cesium atom, they\u2019d be able to keep perfect time, but they can\u2019t due to a weird phenomenon called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rp-photonics.com\/standard_quantum_limit.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standard quantum limit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they have to measure thousands of atoms at once and then average out the results for atomic clocks, which leads to a just <em>slightly<\/em> imprecise second.<\/p>\n<p>Now, MIT researchers have found a way to create a more precise atomic clock by exploiting another weird quantum phenomenon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/scientists-entangle-particles-across-52-mile-long-quantum-loop\">entanglement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If scientists could measure the oscillations of just one energized cesium atom, they\u2019d be able to keep perfect time, but they can\u2019t due to a weird phenomenon called the standard quantum limit. Instead, they have to measure thousands of atoms at once and then average out the results for atomic clocks, which leads to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}