{"id":224542,"date":"2025-11-05T05:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-achieve-high-precision-in-measuring-strontium-atoms-using-rubidium-neighbor"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:28:38","slug":"physicists-achieve-high-precision-in-measuring-strontium-atoms-using-rubidium-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-achieve-high-precision-in-measuring-strontium-atoms-using-rubidium-neighbor","title":{"rendered":"Physicists achieve high precision in measuring strontium atoms using rubidium neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-achieve-high-precision-in-measuring-strontium-atoms-using-rubidium-neighbor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having good neighbors can be very valuable\u2014even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern applications in atomic clocks and quantum computers, to unprecedented precision. To achieve this, they made clever use of a nearby cloud of rubidium atoms. The results were <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/cjks-9hlp\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Strontium. It is perhaps not the most popularly known chemical element, but among a group of physicists it has a much better reputation\u2014and rightfully so.<\/p>\n<p>Strontium is one of six so-called alkaline earth metals, meaning that it shares properties with better-known cousins like magnesium, calcium and radium. Strontium atoms have 38 protons in their nucleus, and a varying number of neutrons\u2014for the variations (or isotopes) of strontium that can be found in nature, either 46, 48, 49 or 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having good neighbors can be very valuable\u2014even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern applications in atomic clocks and quantum computers, to unprecedented precision. To achieve this, they made clever use of a nearby cloud of rubidium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224542","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}