Ultrastable optical clock with two cold-atom ensembles

Optical clocks with a record low zero-dead-time instability of 6 × 10 –17 at 1 second are demonstrated in two cold-ytterbium systems. The two systems are interrogated by a shared optical local oscillator to nearly eliminate the Dick effect. Atomic clocks based on optical transitions are the most sta...

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