{"id":204999,"date":"2025-01-31T05:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/atoms-that-measure-magnetic-fields-could-lead-to-new-quantum-sensors"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:15:14","slug":"atoms-that-measure-magnetic-fields-could-lead-to-new-quantum-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/atoms-that-measure-magnetic-fields-could-lead-to-new-quantum-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Atoms that measure magnetic fields could lead to new quantum sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atoms-that-measure-magnetic-fields-could-lead-to-new-quantum-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around\u2014atoms.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s findings could one day lead to a host of new quantum sensors, from devices that map out the activity of the human brain to others that could help airplanes navigate the globe. The new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/optica\/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-1-77&id=567108\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Optica<\/i>, stems from a collaboration between physicist Cindy Regal and quantum engineer Svenja Knappe.<\/p>\n<p>It reveals the versatility of atoms trapped as vapors, said Regal, professor of physics and fellow at JILA, a joint research institute between CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around\u2014atoms. The group\u2019s findings could one day lead to a host of new quantum sensors, from devices that map out the activity of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204999","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=204999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}