{"id":219543,"date":"2025-08-07T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-work-achieves-a-pure-quantum-state-without-the-need-for-cooling"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:06:29","slug":"new-work-achieves-a-pure-quantum-state-without-the-need-for-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-work-achieves-a-pure-quantum-state-without-the-need-for-cooling","title":{"rendered":"New work achieves a pure quantum state without the need for cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-work-achieves-a-pure-quantum-state-without-the-need-for-cooling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another\u2014only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times smaller than that of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of an optical device and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+beams\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser beams<\/a>, researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in keeping such objects almost completely motionless in levitation. This is significant when it comes to the future development of quantum sensors, which, together with quantum computers, constitute the most promising applications of quantum research.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s work appears in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another\u2014only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times smaller than that of a human hair. With the help of an optical device and laser beams, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219543","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}