{"id":104663,"date":"2020-04-02T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/toward-perfect-quantum-metamaterial-study-uses-trapped-atoms-in-an-artificial-crystal-of-light"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T19:44:18","slug":"toward-perfect-quantum-metamaterial-study-uses-trapped-atoms-in-an-artificial-crystal-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/toward-perfect-quantum-metamaterial-study-uses-trapped-atoms-in-an-artificial-crystal-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Toward \u2018perfect\u2019 quantum metamaterial: Study uses trapped atoms in an artificial crystal of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toward-perfect-quantum-metamaterial-study-uses-trapped-atoms-in-an-artificial-crystal-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have devised a way to build a \u201cquantum metamaterial\u201d\u2014an engineered material with exotic properties not found in nature\u2014using ultracold atoms trapped in an artificial crystal composed of light. The theoretical work represents a step toward manipulating atoms to transmit information, perform complex simulations or function as powerful sensors.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, proposes the use of an accordion-like atomic framework, or \u201clattice\u201d structure, made with laser light to trap atoms in regularly spaced nanoscale pockets. Such a light-based structure, which has patterned features that in some ways resemble those of a crystal, is essentially a \u201cperfect\u201d structure\u2014free of the typical defects found in natural materials.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers believe they can pinpoint the placement of a so-called \u201cprobe\u201d atom in this crystal of light, and actively tune its behavior with another type of laser light (near-infrared light) to make the atom cough up some of its energy on demand in the form of a particle of light, or photon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Scientists have devised a way to build a \u201cquantum metamaterial\u201d\u2014an engineered material with exotic properties not found in nature\u2014using ultracold atoms trapped in an artificial crystal composed of light. The theoretical work represents a step toward manipulating atoms to transmit information, perform complex simulations or function as powerful sensors. The research team, led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104663","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}