{"id":113201,"date":"2020-09-20T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/quantum-enhanced-atomic-force-microscopy-squeezed-light-reduces-noise"},"modified":"2020-09-20T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:23:19","slug":"quantum-enhanced-atomic-force-microscopy-squeezed-light-reduces-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/quantum-enhanced-atomic-force-microscopy-squeezed-light-reduces-noise","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Enhanced Atomic Force Microscopy: Squeezed Light Reduces Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-enhanced-atomic-force-microscopy-squeezed-light-reduces-noise.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and illuminate a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is possible with traditional tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe showed how to use squeezed light \u2013 a workhorse of quantum information science \u2013 as a practical resource for microscopy,\u201d said Ben Lawrie of ORNL\u2019s Materials Science and Technology Division, who led the research with Raphael Pooser of ORNL\u2019s Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. \u201cWe measured the displacement of an atomic force microscope microcantilever with sensitivity better than the standard quantum limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike today\u2019s classical microscopes, Pooser and Lawrie\u2019s quantum microscope requires quantum theory to describe its sensitivity. The nonlinear amplifiers in ORNL\u2019s microscope generate a special quantum light source known as squeezed light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and illuminate a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is possible with traditional tools. \u201cWe showed how to use squeezed light \u2013 a workhorse of quantum information science \u2013 as a practical resource for microscopy,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113201","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}