{"id":108513,"date":"2020-06-10T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/acoustics-put-a-fresh-spin-on-electron-transitions"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T02:24:26","slug":"acoustics-put-a-fresh-spin-on-electron-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/acoustics-put-a-fresh-spin-on-electron-transitions","title":{"rendered":"Acoustics put a fresh spin on electron transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/acoustics-put-a-fresh-spin-on-electron-transitions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrons are very much at the mercy of magnetic fields, which scientists can manipulate to control the electrons and their angular momentum\u2014i.e. their \u201cspin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Cornell team led by Greg Fuchs, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics in the College of Engineering, in 2013 invented a new way to exert this control by using acoustic waves generated by mechanical resonators. That approach enabled the team to control electron spin transitions (also known as spin resonance) that otherwise wouldn\u2019t be possible through conventional magnetic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was a boon for anyone looking to build quantum sensors of the sort used in mobile navigation devices. However, such devices still required a magnetic control field\u2014and therefore a bulky magnetic antenna\u2014to drive certain spin transitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrons are very much at the mercy of magnetic fields, which scientists can manipulate to control the electrons and their angular momentum\u2014i.e. their \u201cspin.\u201d A Cornell team led by Greg Fuchs, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics in the College of Engineering, in 2013 invented a new way to exert this control by using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108513","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}