{"id":214172,"date":"2025-05-17T05:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/optical-technique-detects-ultra-weak-atomic-motion-in-crystals-with-high-precision"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:27","slug":"optical-technique-detects-ultra-weak-atomic-motion-in-crystals-with-high-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/optical-technique-detects-ultra-weak-atomic-motion-in-crystals-with-high-precision","title":{"rendered":"Optical technique detects ultra-weak atomic motion in crystals with high precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-technique-detects-ultra-weak-atomic-motion-in-crystals-with-high-precision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has developed a new optical method to detect ultra-weak atomic motion. Their experiment performed in Dortmund has demonstrated unprecedented sensitivity of the detection of atomic motion in crystals by exploiting light interference.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02229-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, open new ways for studying ultrafast processes in materials.<\/p>\n<p>Precise optical measurements rely on interferometers, where the beam probing a distance of interest interferes with a reference beam traveling a fixed path. This allows for assessing the path length difference of the two beams with high precision. A striking example is gravitational interferometers, which detect <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational waves<\/a> induced by a distant event in the universe, such as the collision of black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has developed a new optical method to detect ultra-weak atomic motion. Their experiment performed in Dortmund has demonstrated unprecedented sensitivity of the detection of atomic motion in crystals by exploiting light interference. The findings, recently published in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214172","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=214172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}