Mafi kyawun agogo suna ƙirga bugun electron a cikin atom. Thorium-229 yana ba da wani abu da ba kasafai ake samu ba: ƙwayar tsakiyarsa (nucleus) kanta za a iya tayar da ita da laser. Hakan yana buɗe hanyar agogon nukiliya.
Wata tawaga a Hefei da Vienna ta mayar da hasken laser na infrared zuwa ultraviolet a nanomita 148.4. Sun haskaka shi ta wani crystal mai ɗauke da thorium. Ƙwayoyin tsakiya suna sha a 'yan mitoci kaɗan masu kaifi.
Kowace daƙiƙa 10, laser ɗin ya gyara kansa a kan layi mafi kaifi. Zagayen ya riƙe na sa'o'i 30 a jere. Tawagar ta dakatar da shi yayin da yake manne har yanzu, saboda fitar iska (outgassing) ta dusashe hasken.
A cikin matsakaicin kusan sa'o'i uku, ya kauce da kusan kashi ɗaya cikin tiriliyan goma. Mafi kyawun agogon atom har yanzu sun fi shi nesa ba kusa ba. Amma guntayen crystal guda sun nuna tsarin layuka iri ɗaya a dakunan gwaje-gwaje uku.
Tushe: A solid-state nuclear clock based on VUV absorption spectroscopy of ²²⁹Th, https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10056











