MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.

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Atomic clocks, which power GPS, online transactions, and data networks, just became more precise. MIT physicists have developed a technique that doubles the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by ...