Taking the Temperature of JILA's Strontium Lattice Atomic Clock (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Taking the Temperature of JILA's Strontium Lattice Atomic Clock

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JILA's strontium lattice atomic clock now performs better than ever because scientists literally "take the temperature" of the atoms' environment. Two specialized thermometers, calibrated by NIST researchers and visible in the center of the photo, are inserted into the vacuum chamber containing a cloud of ultracold strontium atoms confined by lasers.

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