{"id":215790,"date":"2025-06-12T06:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/quantum-navigation-device-uses-atoms-to-measure-acceleration-in-3d"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:20:02","slug":"quantum-navigation-device-uses-atoms-to-measure-acceleration-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/quantum-navigation-device-uses-atoms-to-measure-acceleration-in-3d","title":{"rendered":"Quantum navigation device uses atoms to measure acceleration in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-navigation-device-uses-atoms-to-measure-acceleration-in-3d2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions\u2014a feat that many scientists didn\u2019t think was possible.<\/p>\n<p>The device, a new type of atom \u201cinterferometer,\u201d could one day help people navigate submarines, spacecraft, cars and other vehicles more precisely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional atom interferometers can only measure acceleration in a single dimension, but we live within a three-dimensional world,\u201d said Kendall Mehling, a co-author of the new study and a graduate student in the Department of Physics at CU Boulder. \u201cTo know where I\u2019m going, and to know where I\u2019ve been, I need to track my acceleration in all three dimensions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions\u2014a feat that many scientists didn\u2019t think was possible. The device, a new type of atom \u201cinterferometer,\u201d could one day help people navigate submarines, spacecraft, cars [\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-215790","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\/215790","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=215790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}