{"id":204617,"date":"2025-01-27T01:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoribbons-reveal-potential-source-of-light-for-quantum-technologies"},"modified":"2025-01-27T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:09:27","slug":"nanoribbons-reveal-potential-source-of-light-for-quantum-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoribbons-reveal-potential-source-of-light-for-quantum-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Nanoribbons reveal potential source of light for quantum technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoribbons-reveal-potential-source-of-light-for-quantum-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments conducted at Montana State University in collaboration with Columbia University and the Honda Research Institute have resulted in the emission of single photons of light in a new type of quantum material\u2014a feat that could lead to the development of controllable light sources for use in quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive article about the breakthrough was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54413-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. It describes ultra small, two-dimensional, ribbon-shaped materials measuring one atom thick and tens of atoms wide\u2014about a thousand times narrower than the width of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>The nanoribbons were grown by the Honda Research Institute, stretched over specialized surfaces developed by Columbia to stimulate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon+emission\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon emission<\/a>, then manipulated and tested by the MSU team, which analyzed and described the nanoribbons\u2019 characteristics, including their ability to emit single photons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments conducted at Montana State University in collaboration with Columbia University and the Honda Research Institute have resulted in the emission of single photons of light in a new type of quantum material\u2014a feat that could lead to the development of controllable light sources for use in quantum technologies. A comprehensive article about the breakthrough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204617","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\/204617","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=204617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}