{"id":212954,"date":"2025-05-01T05:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hemispherical-mirror-technique-results-in-quantum-noise-reduction"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:21:54","slug":"hemispherical-mirror-technique-results-in-quantum-noise-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hemispherical-mirror-technique-results-in-quantum-noise-reduction","title":{"rendered":"Hemispherical mirror technique results in quantum noise reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hemispherical-mirror-technique-results-in-quantum-noise-reduction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Swansea University have discovered a way to use mirrors to dramatically reduce the quantum noise that disturbs tiny particles\u2014a breakthrough that might seem magical but is rooted in quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>When scientists measure extremely small objects, such as nanoparticles, they face a difficult challenge: simply observing these particles disturbs them. This happens because photons, particles of light, used for measurement \u201ckick\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tiny+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny particles<\/a> they hit, an effect known as \u201cbackaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.7.023041\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Research<\/i>, a team from the university\u2019s Physics Department has revealed a remarkable connection, that this relationship works both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Swansea University have discovered a way to use mirrors to dramatically reduce the quantum noise that disturbs tiny particles\u2014a breakthrough that might seem magical but is rooted in quantum physics. When scientists measure extremely small objects, such as nanoparticles, they face a difficult challenge: simply observing these particles disturbs them. This happens because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212954","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=212954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}