{"id":211139,"date":"2025-04-11T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-new-way-to-keep-quantum-spins-coherent-longer"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:23:12","slug":"scientists-discover-new-way-to-keep-quantum-spins-coherent-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-new-way-to-keep-quantum-spins-coherent-longer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new way to keep quantum spins coherent longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-way-to-keep-quantum-spins-coherent-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows that electron spins\u2014tiny magnetic properties of atoms that can store information\u2014can be protected from decohering (losing their quantum state) much more effectively than previously thought, simply by applying low magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, these spins quickly lose coherence when they interact with other particles or absorb certain types of light, which limits their usefulness in technologies like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum sensors<\/a> or atomic clocks. But the researchers discovered that even interactions that directly relax or disrupt the spin can be significantly suppressed using weak magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>This finding expands our understanding of how to control <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a> and opens new possibilities for developing more stable and precise quantum devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that electron spins\u2014tiny magnetic properties of atoms that can store information\u2014can be protected from decohering (losing their quantum state) much more effectively than previously thought, simply by applying low magnetic fields. Normally, these spins quickly lose coherence when they interact with other particles or absorb certain types of light, which limits [\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-211139","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\/211139","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=211139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}