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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

An Aluminum Ion Optical Clock Using Quantum Logic

Till Rosenband, Piet O. Schmidt, David B. Hume, Tara M. Fortier, Windell H. Oskay, Jeroen C. J. Koelemeij, K. Kim, Wayne M. Itano, Scott A. Diddams, Jonas Bergquist, Robert E. Drullinger, David J. Wineland

Published May 18, 2006• 0 citations
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