{"id":148672,"date":"2022-10-22T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/an-entangled-matter-wave-interferometer-now-with-double-the-spookiness"},"modified":"2022-10-22T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:22:48","slug":"an-entangled-matter-wave-interferometer-now-with-double-the-spookiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/an-entangled-matter-wave-interferometer-now-with-double-the-spookiness","title":{"rendered":"An entangled matter-wave interferometer. Now with double the spookiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-entangled-matter-wave-interferometer-now-with-double-the-spookiness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson\u2019s team of researchers have for the first time successfully combined two of the \u201cspookiest\u201d features of quantum mechanics to make a better quantum sensor: entanglement between atoms and delocalization of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein originally referred to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/entanglement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">entanglement<\/a> as creating spooky action at a distance\u2014the strange effect of quantum mechanics in which what happens to one atom somehow influences another atom somewhere else. Entanglement is at the heart of hoped-for quantum computers, quantum simulators and quantum sensors.<\/p>\n<p>A second rather spooky aspect of quantum mechanics is delocalization, the fact that a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+atom\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single atom<\/a> can be in more than one place at the same time. As described in their paper recently published in <i>Nature<\/i>, the Thompson group has combined the spookiness of both entanglement and delocalization to realize a matter-wave interferometer that can sense accelerations with a precision that surpasses the standard quantum limit (a limit on the accuracy of an experimental measurement at a quantum level) for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson\u2019s team of researchers have for the first time successfully combined two of the \u201cspookiest\u201d features of quantum mechanics to make a better quantum sensor: entanglement between atoms and delocalization of atoms. Einstein originally referred to entanglement as creating spooky action at a distance\u2014the strange effect of quantum mechanics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148672","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=148672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}