{"id":107005,"date":"2020-05-13T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/mechanical-oscillations-cause-iron-to-become-transparent-to-gamma-rays"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:42:37","slug":"mechanical-oscillations-cause-iron-to-become-transparent-to-gamma-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/mechanical-oscillations-cause-iron-to-become-transparent-to-gamma-rays","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical oscillations cause iron to become transparent to gamma rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mechanical-oscillations-cause-iron-to-become-transparent-to-gamma-rays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIron nuclei can be made transparent to gamma rays that they would normally absorb using a new technique called \u201cacoustically induced transparency\u201d (AIT). This feat was achieved by physicists in the US and Russia, who vibrated an iron M\u00f6ssbauer absorber using a piezoelectric transducer. The researchers believe the effect could help to control the emission of radiation from nuclei, allowing more accurate atomic clocks and other quantum optical devices to be created. The technique could even be used to slow the passage of gamma rays through a material.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAcoustically induced transparency\u201d created by vibrating solid absorber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIron nuclei can be made transparent to gamma rays that they would normally absorb using a new technique called \u201cacoustically induced transparency\u201d (AIT). This feat was achieved by physicists in the US and Russia, who vibrated an iron M\u00f6ssbauer absorber using a piezoelectric transducer. The researchers believe the effect could help to control the emission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107005","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}