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Our goal is to directly observe the low-energy thorium-229 nuclear excited state and, for the first time, control this nuclear transition with optical methods. Such optical manipulation of the nucleus could lead to unprecedented studies of the interplay between atomic and nuclear systems, provide a new frequency/time standard, and could be used as a qubit for quantum computing.
