{"id":167555,"date":"2023-07-14T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/extreme-measuring-device-can-bring-quantum-technology-to-your-smartphone"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:23:30","slug":"extreme-measuring-device-can-bring-quantum-technology-to-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/extreme-measuring-device-can-bring-quantum-technology-to-your-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"Extreme measuring device can bring quantum technology to your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extreme-measuring-device-can-bring-quantum-technology-to-your-smartphone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Copenhagen researchers have invented a \u201cquantum drum\u201d that can measure pressure, a gas leak, heat, magnetism and a host of other things with extreme precision. It can even scan the shape of a single virus. The invention has now been adapted to work at room temperature and may be finding its way into our phones.<\/p>\n<p>Humans have tried to measure the world around them since ancient times. Now, researchers are using the laws of quantum physics to develop one of the most sensitive measuring devices the world has ever seen. One day, it may even be yours. With two innovative solutions, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have found a way to get quantum technology into our pockets.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of the apparatus could be called a \u201cquantum drum\u201d: It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thin+membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thin membrane<\/a> that vibrates like a drum skin, but with so small an amplitude that the laws of quantum physics are needed to describe what\u2019s happening. In other words, it\u2019s vibrating really fast. This means the drum can be used as an ultra-precise measuring device\u2014a quantum supersensor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Copenhagen researchers have invented a \u201cquantum drum\u201d that can measure pressure, a gas leak, heat, magnetism and a host of other things with extreme precision. It can even scan the shape of a single virus. The invention has now been adapted to work at room temperature and may be finding its way into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167555","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}