{"id":197314,"date":"2024-10-09T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/quantum-physicists-tap-into-entanglement-to-improve-the-precision-of-optical-atomic-clocks"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:22:33","slug":"quantum-physicists-tap-into-entanglement-to-improve-the-precision-of-optical-atomic-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/quantum-physicists-tap-into-entanglement-to-improve-the-precision-of-optical-atomic-clocks","title":{"rendered":"Quantum physicists tap into entanglement to improve the precision of optical atomic clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-physicists-tap-into-entanglement-to-improve-the-precision-of-optical-atomic-clocks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not your ordinary pocket watch: The researchers showed that, at least under a narrow range of conditions, their clock could beat a benchmark for precision called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/standard+quantum+limit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">standard quantum limit<\/a>\u201d\u2014what physicist Adam Kaufman refers to as the \u201cHoly Grail\u201d for optical atomic clocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re able to do is divide the same length of time into smaller and smaller units,\u201d said Kaufman, senior author of the new study and a fellow at JILA, a joint research institute between CU Boulder and NIST. \u201cThat acceleration could allow us to track time more precisely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s advancements could lead to new quantum technologies. They include sensors that can measure subtle changes in the environment, such as how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/ecee\/2023\/11\/01\/researchers-test-einsteins-predictions-general-relativity-atop-rocky-mountains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth\u2019s gravity shifts with elevation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not your ordinary pocket watch: The researchers showed that, at least under a narrow range of conditions, their clock could beat a benchmark for precision called the \u201cstandard quantum limit\u201d\u2014what physicist Adam Kaufman refers to as the \u201cHoly Grail\u201d for optical atomic clocks. \u201cWhat we\u2019re able to do is divide the same length of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197314","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}