{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-swap-plot-visualising-the-performance-of","title":"The SWaP plot: Visualising the performance of portable atomic clocks as a function of their size, weight and power","arxiv_id":"2409.08484","date":"2024-09-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Benjamin White","Rachel Offer","Ashby Hilton","Andre Luiten"],"abstract":"Precision timekeeping is fundamental to modern technologies such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), communication networks, financial transactions, and power grid management. Over the past 50 years, microwave atomic clocks have been the standard for timing precision. The new generation of optical atomic clocks have demonstrated orders of magnitude better performance, and are now transitioning from research to practical applications. We provide a web resource that tracks the performance of these optical atomic clocks, measured in terms of their Allan deviation at various integration times, against their SWaP requirements via an interactive plot. The most current data and additional resources are available online, providing a continuously updated reference for those interested in precision timing. Updated August 2026.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08484v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.08484v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-swap-plot-visualising-the-performance-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/a1120960/PAC-SWaP","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}