The best upper limit for the electron electric dipole moment was recently set by the ACME collaboration. This experiment measures an electron spin-precession in a cold beam of ThO molecules in their metastable
Physical systems with non-trivial topological order find direct applications in metrology (Klitzing
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10307589
- Journal Name:
- New Journal of Physics
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 5
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- Article No. 053021
- ISSN:
- 1367-2630
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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