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Long Live Ytterbium! Long-lived States Found in Trapped Ions Open New
Long Live Ytterbium! Long-lived States Found in Trapped Ions Open New Doors For Quantum Computing And Atomic Clocks

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived and nearly stable states, and if so, for how long. The…
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