{"id":193534,"date":"2024-07-25T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-quantum-sensor-for-atomic-scale-electric-and-magnetic-fields-w-video"},"modified":"2024-07-25T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:25:59","slug":"a-quantum-sensor-for-atomic-scale-electric-and-magnetic-fields-w-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-quantum-sensor-for-atomic-scale-electric-and-magnetic-fields-w-video","title":{"rendered":"A quantum sensor for atomic-scale electric and magnetic fields (w\/video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-sensor-for-atomic-scale-electric-and-magnetic-fields-w-video.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a scientific breakthrough, an international research team from Germany\u2019s Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and Korea\u2019s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) developed a quantum sensor capable of detecting minute magnetic fields at the atomic length scale. This pioneering work realizes a long-held dream of scientists: an MRI-like tool for quantum materials.<\/p>\n<p>The research team utilized the expertise of bottom up single-molecule fabrication from the J\u00fclich group while conducting experiments at QNS, utilizing the Korean team\u2019s leading-edge instrumentation and methodological know how, to develop the world\u2019s first quantum sensor for the atomic world.<\/p>\n<p>The diameter of an atom is a million times smaller than the thickest human hair. This makes it extremely challenging to visualize and precisely measure physical quantities like electric and magnetic fields emerging from atoms. To sense such weak fields from a single atom, the observing tool must be highly sensitive and as small as the atoms themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scientific breakthrough, an international research team from Germany\u2019s Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and Korea\u2019s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) developed a quantum sensor capable of detecting minute magnetic fields at the atomic length scale. This pioneering work realizes a long-held dream of scientists: an MRI-like tool for quantum materials. The research team utilized the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193534","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=193534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}