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A spinless crystal for a high-performance solid-state Th nuclear clock

Harry W. T. Morgan, James E. S. Terhune, Ricky Elwell +5

Solid-state Th nuclear clocks require a host material whose band gap is larger than the 8.4 eV nuclear transition energy. As such, excitation of the Th nuclear stat…