Abstract
Advances in laser cooling of alkaline earth atoms have reduced trapped atom temperatures from the millikelvin to the microkelvin regime. Using such atoms, our optical atomic clock should have a fractional frequency uncertainty approaching 1×10−15. Sub-recoil cooling and two-pulse atom interferometry are also discussed.
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