A Torsion-Balanced Clock: Rate Stability of a Polarised Torsion Pendulum as a Transit Timing Reference

This paper presents a complete design study of the device is a torsion pendulum clock: a disc suspended on a fine fibre, oscillating in twist, with the disc material spin-polarised so that its torsion constant carries a stated contribution from the aligned spin population, derived from stated assumptions and computed throughout by the accompanying script. The oscillator period is 88.858 s, a frequency of 11.25 mHz, and the assembled instability curve reaches its best value of 3.017e-13 at an averaging time of 1000 s, locating the cadence at which the clock should be disciplined from an external reference. Every figure in the study is a computed result of the stated model and nothing was built or tested: the study is SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and its limits are stated as plainly as its performance.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-11
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24123421
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Advanced Frequency and Time Standards
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A Torsion-Balanced Clock: Rate Stability of a Polarised Torsion Pendulum as a Transit Timing Reference

William Alexander Aldred
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A Torsion-Balanced Clock: Rate Stability of a Polarised Torsion Pendulum as a Transit Timing Reference

William Alexander Aldred
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Abstract

This paper presents a complete design study of the device is a torsion pendulum clock: a disc suspended on a fine fibre, oscillating in twist, with the disc material spin-polarised so that its torsion constant carries a stated contribution from the aligned spin population, derived from stated assumptions and computed throughout by the accompanying script. The oscillator period is 88.858 s, a frequency of 11.25 mHz, and the assembled instability curve reaches its best value of 3.017e-13 at an averaging time of 1000 s, locating the cadence at which the clock should be disciplined from an external reference. Every figure in the study is a computed result of the stated model and nothing was built or tested: the study is SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and its limits are stated as plainly as its performance.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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