Performance of a 229Thorium solid-state nuclear clock

The 7.8 eV nuclear isomer transition in ^229 thorium has been suggested as a clock transition in a new type of optical frequency standard. Here we discuss the construction of a ‘solid-state nuclear clock’ from thorium nuclei implanted into single crystals transparent in the vacuum ultraviolet range....

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Main Authors: G A Kazakov, A N Litvinov, V I Romanenko, L P Yatsenko, A V Romanenko, M Schreitl, G Winkler, T Schumm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/083019