Scandium-45 nuclear-clock candidate driven by X-ray lasers
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Precise timekeeping is key to many technologies, motivating the search for more-stable reference oscillators for use as clocks. The resonant X-ray excitation of a long-lived nuclear state in scandium-45 makes it a potential reference oscillator for a nuclear clock that could surpass atomic clocks in stability and resilience against external perturbations. Nuclear resonance in scandium-45 excited by X-ray lasers could provide the basis for a highly precise and stable nuclear clock.
Source: Nature
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $11,690
OpenAlex ID: W4387096494