{"id":116568,"date":"2020-12-02T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/04-10-97-develop-ultrasensitive-gyroscope-based-on-superfluid-helium"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:24:39","slug":"04-10-97-develop-ultrasensitive-gyroscope-based-on-superfluid-helium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/04-10-97-develop-ultrasensitive-gyroscope-based-on-superfluid-helium","title":{"rendered":"04.10.97 Develop Ultrasensitive Gyroscope Based on Superfluid Helium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/04-10-97-develop-ultrasensitive-gyroscope-based-on-superfluid-helium.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 1997<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Berkeley \u2014 An ultrasensitive, superfluid gyroscope developed by physicists at UC Berkeley has the potential to surpass today\u2019s most sensitive devices for measuring absolute rotation or spin.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a paper in this week\u2019s issue of Nature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.berkeley.edu\/\">physics<\/a> professor <a href=\"http:\/\/physics1.berkeley.edu\/research\/packard\/richard.html\">Richard Packard<\/a> and his colleagues, graduate students Keith Schwab and Niels Bruckner, report a proof-of-principle demonstration of the new device.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.berkeley.edu\/research\/packard\">prototype superfluid gyroscope<\/a> already is quite sensitive and they believe its sensitivity will eventually surpass that of the ring laser gyroscope, a highly sensitive device used in advanced commercial aircraft inertial guidance systems. Packard\u2019s immediate goal is to create a version with a sensitivity 10,000 times greater than the team has achieved to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 1997 Berkeley \u2014 An ultrasensitive, superfluid gyroscope developed by physicists at UC Berkeley has the potential to surpass today\u2019s most sensitive devices for measuring absolute rotation or spin. In a paper in this week\u2019s issue of Nature, physics professor Richard Packard and his colleagues, graduate students Keith Schwab and Niels Bruckner, report a proof-of-principle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116568","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=116568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}