Time Measurement at the Millennium
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 54 (3) , 37-42
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1366066
Abstract
The latest clocks use a single ion to measure time with an anticipated precision of one part in 1018.Keywords
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