{"id":118862,"date":"2021-01-25T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/adding-or-subtracting-single-quanta-of-sound"},"modified":"2021-01-25T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T22:22:18","slug":"adding-or-subtracting-single-quanta-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/adding-or-subtracting-single-quanta-of-sound","title":{"rendered":"Adding or subtracting single quanta of sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adding-or-subtracting-single-quanta-of-sound3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers perform experiments that can add or subtract a single quantum of sound\u2014with surprising results when applied to noisy sound fields.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics tells us that physical objects can have both wave and particle properties. For instance, a single particle\u2014or quantum\u2014of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> is known as a photon, and, in a similar fashion, a single quantum of sound is known as a phonon, which can be thought of as the smallest unit of sound energy.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers spanning Imperial College London, University of Oxford, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Bath, and the Australian National University have performed an experiment that can add or subtract a single phonon to a high-frequency sound field using interactions with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers perform experiments that can add or subtract a single quantum of sound\u2014with surprising results when applied to noisy sound fields. Quantum mechanics tells us that physical objects can have both wave and particle properties. For instance, a single particle\u2014or quantum\u2014of light is known as a photon, and, in a similar fashion, a single quantum [\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-118862","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\/118862","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=118862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}