Examples of ytterbium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web They were first detected in 2016 in experiments with ions of the rare-earth metal ytterbium at the University of Maryland. — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 15 July 2022 The IonQ processor uses powerful lasers to trap ions from a rare earth metal, ytterbium, and uses these to form its qubits. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021 The ytterbium and aluminum clocks were housed in one lab in Boulder, Colorado, and the strontium clock was housed in another lab just under a mile across town, according to NPR. — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021 Honeywell's president of Quantum Solutions, Tony Uttley, emphasized to Ars that this eliminates manufacturing issues, as every single device has identical properties defined by the atom being used (ytterbium in this case). — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020 Monroe’s firm uses another long-standing technology: applying magnetic fields to trap ions of ytterbium whose quantum state is read out using lasers. — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019 Nitrogen is put in diamond, phosphorous in silicon, and ytterbium in yttrium-aluminum-garnet crystals. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019 Here, the quantum state is not generally stored in a single ytterbium ion. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019 In one experiment, a group led by Christopher Monroe of the University of Maryland, College Park, created a time crystal in an engineered system of a chain of ytterbium ions. — Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019 See More

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