{"id":175096,"date":"2023-10-27T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/quantum-leap-harvard-scientists-use-sound-to-test-devices-control-qubits"},"modified":"2023-10-27T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T02:23:30","slug":"quantum-leap-harvard-scientists-use-sound-to-test-devices-control-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/quantum-leap-harvard-scientists-use-sound-to-test-devices-control-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Leap \u2014 Harvard Scientists Use Sound To Test Devices, Control Qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-harvard-scientists-use-sound-to-test-devices-control-qubits3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acoustic resonators, found in devices like smartphones and Wi-Fi systems, degrade over time with no easy way to monitor this degradation. Researchers from Harvard SEAS and Purdue University have now developed a method using atomic vacancies in silicon carbide to measure the stability of these resonators and even manipulate quantum states, potentially benefiting accelerometers, gyroscopes, clocks, and quantum networking.<\/p>\n<p>Acoustic resonators are everywhere. In fact, there is a good chance you\u2019re holding one in your hand right now. Most smartphones today use bulk acoustic resonators as radio frequency filters to filter out noise that could degrade a signal. These filters are also used in most Wi-Fi and GPS<\/p>\n<p>GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time information anywhere on or near the Earth\u2019s surface. It consists of a network of satellites, ground control stations, and GPS receivers, which are found in a variety of devices such as smartphones, cars, and aircraft. GPS is used for a wide range of applications including navigation, mapping, tracking, and timing, and has an accuracy of about 3 meters (10 feet) in most conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acoustic resonators, found in devices like smartphones and Wi-Fi systems, degrade over time with no easy way to monitor this degradation. Researchers from Harvard SEAS and Purdue University have now developed a method using atomic vacancies in silicon carbide to measure the stability of these resonators and even manipulate quantum states, potentially benefiting accelerometers, gyroscopes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1512,1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175096","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=175096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}