{"id":103997,"date":"2020-03-19T16:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-create-quantum-sensor-that-covers-entire-radio-frequency-spectrum"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:27:21","slug":"scientists-create-quantum-sensor-that-covers-entire-radio-frequency-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-create-quantum-sensor-that-covers-entire-radio-frequency-spectrum","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-quantum-sensor-that-covers-entire-radio-frequency-spectrum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers from the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Such wide spectral coverage by a single antenna is impossible with a traditional receiver system, and would require multiple systems of individual antennas, amplifiers and other components.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Army scientists were the first in the world to create a quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/212935\">receiver<\/a> that uses highly excited, super-sensitive atoms\u2014known as Rydberg atoms\u2014to detect communications signals, said David Meyer, a scientist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command\u2019s Army Research Laboratory. The researchers calculated the receiver\u2019s channel capacity, or rate of data transmission, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+principles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental principles<\/a>, and then achieved that performance experimentally in their lab\u2014improving on other groups\u2019 results by orders of magnitude, Meyer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers from the Army. Such wide spectral coverage by a single antenna is impossible with a traditional receiver system, and would require multiple systems of individual antennas, amplifiers and other components. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}