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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

The Sr optical lattice clock at JILA: A new record in atomic clock performance

Travis Nicholson, Benjamin Bloom, Jason Williams, Sara Campbell, Michael Bishof, Xibo Zhang, Wei Zhang, Sarah Bromley, Ross B. Hutson, Rees L. McNally, Jun Ye

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