Building an atomic clock with Endohedral Fullerenes

[iMo]

[nctnico]

I guess they spend all the money on getting the molecules and forgot to buy decent microphones. 

[Doctorandus_P]

I really don't care about what their presumed cost of some weird substance is, and that was a slight annoyance. Then came a long shot of some logo with a bluish background and annoying music. That's 3 annoyances and was enough to close close the video.

I'm not sure but I think that guy looks like one of the "famous" youtubers. I'd expect better introductions from such people.

[jbb]

TL;DW

Cesium atomic clocks are good, and work by probing the behaviour of the unpaired electron. Unfortunately to do that you need isolated cesium atoms and that means a very complicated vacuum chamber, cesium atom source, magnets etc.

By jamming a lonely nitrogen atom into the middle of a buckyball (carbon 60 molecule), you can achieve a similar effect but hopefully without vacuum chambers etc. This might open a door to a very small low power implementation. Edit: some modest magnets likely still required.

[nctnico]

It is interesting, but I'm kind of missing the expected performance. How would it compare against Rubidium, Cesium or a Hydrogen maser?

[coppercone2]

there has got to be some better vacuum pump to get rid of the turbo molecular pump.

For some reason they made me think of force fields/plasma, I hate the idea of a bucky ball clock, there needs to be a better way to make a normal one.

You know that rotating plasma field they make a window with in some youtube videos that looks kind of cool, using magnets? I wonder if that might be the first step to making some kind of 'pump impeller'

Also the video makes me feel like I stepped through the quantum mirror .  Their laws of physics are just slightly different

[iMo]

..this is somehow related..