{"id":138466,"date":"2022-04-22T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-turn-a-hydrogen-molecule-into-a-quantum-sensor"},"modified":"2022-04-22T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:09:43","slug":"scientists-turn-a-hydrogen-molecule-into-a-quantum-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-turn-a-hydrogen-molecule-into-a-quantum-sensor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-turn-a-hydrogen-molecule-into-a-quantum-sensor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that can measure the chemical properties of materials at unprecedented time and spatial resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>This new technique can also be applied to analysis of two-dimensional materials which have the potential to play a role in advanced energy systems, electronics and quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Today in <i>Science<\/i>, the researchers in UCI\u2019s Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy and Department of Chemistry describe how they positioned two bound atoms of hydrogen in between the silver tip of the STM and a sample composed of a flat copper surface arrayed with small islands of copper nitride. With pulses of the laser lasting trillionths of a second, the scientists were able to excite the hydrogen molecule and detect changes in its quantum states at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cryogenic+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cryogenic temperatures<\/a> and in the ultrahigh vacuum environment of the instrument, rendering atomic-scale, time-lapsed images of the sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that can measure the chemical properties of materials at unprecedented time and spatial resolutions. This new technique can also be applied to analysis of two-dimensional materials which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138466","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=138466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}