{"id":194108,"date":"2024-08-06T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/visualizing-atom-currents-in-optical-lattices"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:25:28","slug":"visualizing-atom-currents-in-optical-lattices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/visualizing-atom-currents-in-optical-lattices","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Atom Currents in Optical Lattices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visualizing-atom-currents-in-optical-lattices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new manipulation technique could enable the realization of more versatile quantum simulators.<\/p>\n<p>The Born rule, formulated almost a century ago, says that measuring a system yields an outcome whose probability is determined by the wave-function amplitude. As if by magic, preparing a quantum system in the same way and performing the same measurement can produce different results. For a long time, the Born rule\u2019s probabilistic nature was more of a theoretical concept. But with the advent of quantum simulators, it has become an experimental reality. So-called snapshots\u2014different measurement outcomes of the same quantum many-body state\u2014are routinely measured. In the case of cold atoms in optical lattices, such snapshots are images that show with single-site resolution whether an atom is present or not. Now Alexander Impertro of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and his collaborators have devised a way to take snapshots not just of atoms\u2019 whereabouts but also of properties analogous to currents and local kinetic energy in crystals [1].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new manipulation technique could enable the realization of more versatile quantum simulators. The Born rule, formulated almost a century ago, says that measuring a system yields an outcome whose probability is determined by the wave-function amplitude. As if by magic, preparing a quantum system in the same way and performing the same measurement can [\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-194108","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\/194108","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=194108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}