Introduction to atomic clocks and some mathematical results regarding their operation |
TYPE | PDE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR |
Speaker: | Martin Fraas |
Affiliation: | ETH Zurich |
Date: | 10.10.2013 |
Time: | 14:30 |
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Abstract: | I will explain how atomic clocks operate, briefly describe the history and theoretical challenges of the field, and present a mathematically minded model of atomic clocks based on the quantum estimation theory. I will prove that the model has a stationary state and describe properties of this state. In particular, I derive a Cramer-Rao type bound on the clock time precision |