{"id":172881,"date":"2023-09-27T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-for-better-quantum-measurements"},"modified":"2023-09-27T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T07:22:25","slug":"new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-for-better-quantum-measurements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-for-better-quantum-measurements","title":{"rendered":"New spin-squeezing techniques let atoms work together for better quantum measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-for-better-quantum-measurements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening new possibilities for quantum sensors, atomic clocks and tests of fundamental physics, JILA researchers have developed new ways of \u201centangling\u201d or interlinking the properties of large numbers of particles. In the process they have devised ways to measure large groups of atoms more accurately even in disruptive, noisy environments.<\/p>\n<p>The new techniques are described in a pair of papers published in <i>Nature<\/i>. JILA is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntanglement is the holy grail of measurement science,\u201d said Ana Maria Rey, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+physicist\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical physicist<\/a> and a JILA and NIST Fellow. \u201cAtoms are the best sensors ever. They\u2019re universal. The problem is that they\u2019re quantum objects, so they\u2019re intrinsically noisy. When you measure them, sometimes they\u2019re in one <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy state<\/a>, sometimes they\u2019re in another state. When you entangle them, you can manage to cancel the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening new possibilities for quantum sensors, atomic clocks and tests of fundamental physics, JILA researchers have developed new ways of \u201centangling\u201d or interlinking the properties of large numbers of particles. In the process they have devised ways to measure large groups of atoms more accurately even in disruptive, noisy environments. The new techniques are described [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172881","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\/172881","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}