{"id":202715,"date":"2024-12-29T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/quantum-science-and-technology-highlights-of-2024"},"modified":"2024-12-29T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:02:50","slug":"quantum-science-and-technology-highlights-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/quantum-science-and-technology-highlights-of-2024","title":{"rendered":"Quantum science and technology: highlights of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-science-and-technology-highlights-of-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With so much fascinating research going on in quantum science and technology, it\u2019s hard to pick just a handful of highlights. Fun, but hard. Research on entanglement-based imaging and quantum error correction both appear in <em><i>Physics World<\/i>\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/top-10-breakthroughs-of-the-year-in-physics-for-2024-revealed\/\">list of 2024\u2019s top 10 breakthroughs<\/a>, but beyond that, here are a few other achievements worth remembering as we head into 2025 \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/international-year-of-quantum-science-and-technology-2025-heres-all-you-need-to-know\/\">International Year of Quantum Science and Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quantum sensing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In July, physicists at Germany\u2019s Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and Korea\u2019s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) reported that they had fabricated <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/quantum-sensor-detects-magnetic-and-electric-fields-from-a-single-atom\/\">a quantum sensor that can detect the electric and magnetic fields of individual atoms<\/a>. The sensor consists of a molecule containing an unpaired electron (a molecular spin) that the physicists attached to the tip of a scanning-tunnelling microscope. They then used it to measure the magnetic and electric dipole fields emanating from a single iron atom and a silver dimer on a gold substrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much fascinating research going on in quantum science and technology, it\u2019s hard to pick just a handful of highlights. Fun, but hard. Research on entanglement-based imaging and quantum error correction both appear in Physics World\u2019s list of 2024\u2019s top 10 breakthroughs, but beyond that, here are a few other achievements worth remembering as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202715","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}