{"id":113497,"date":"2020-09-27T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/meet-the-quantum-fridge-at-three-atoms-in-size-its-much-smaller-than-a-minibar"},"modified":"2020-09-27T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:25:05","slug":"meet-the-quantum-fridge-at-three-atoms-in-size-its-much-smaller-than-a-minibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/meet-the-quantum-fridge-at-three-atoms-in-size-its-much-smaller-than-a-minibar","title":{"rendered":"Meet the quantum fridge \u2014 at three atoms in size, it\u2019s much smaller than a minibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-quantum-fridge-at-three-atoms-in-size-its-much-smaller-than-a-minibar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Singapore have built a refrigerator that\u2019s just three atoms big.<\/p>\n<p>This quantum fridge won\u2019t keep your drinks cold, but it\u2019s cool proof of physics operating at the smallest scales. The work is described in a paper published in Nature Communications (\u201cQuantum absorption refrigerator with trapped ions\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have built tiny \u2018heat engines\u2019 before, but quantum fridges existed only as proposals until the team at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore chilled with their atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Singapore have built a refrigerator that\u2019s just three atoms big. This quantum fridge won\u2019t keep your drinks cold, but it\u2019s cool proof of physics operating at the smallest scales. The work is described in a paper published in Nature Communications (\u201cQuantum absorption refrigerator with trapped ions\u201d). Researchers have built tiny \u2018heat engines\u2019 before, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113497","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=113497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}