{"id":220191,"date":"2025-08-15T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ripples-of-the-future-rice-researchers-unlock-powerful-form-of-quantum-interference"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:31:54","slug":"ripples-of-the-future-rice-researchers-unlock-powerful-form-of-quantum-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ripples-of-the-future-rice-researchers-unlock-powerful-form-of-quantum-interference","title":{"rendered":"Ripples of the future: Rice researchers unlock powerful form of quantum interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ripples-of-the-future-rice-researchers-unlock-powerful-form-of-quantum-interference.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds \u2014 including light, sound and atomic vibrations \u2014 can interfere with one another. At the quantum level, this kind of interference powers high-precision sensors and could be harnessed for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Rice University and collaborators have demonstrated a strong form of interference between phonons \u2014 the vibrations in a material\u2019s structure that constitute the tiniest units, or quanta, of heat or sound in that system. The phenomenon where two phonons with different frequency distributions interfere with each other, known as Fano resonance, was two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this phenomenon is well-studied for particles like electrons and photons, interference between phonons has been much less explored,\u201d said Kunyan Zhang, a former postdoctoral researcher at Rice and first author on the study. \u201cThat is a missed opportunity, since phonons can maintain their wave behavior for a long time, making them promising for stable, high-performance devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rice researchers have demonstrated a form of quantum interference two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds \u2014 including light, sound and atomic vibrations \u2014 can interfere with one another. At the quantum level, this kind of interference powers high-precision sensors and could be harnessed for quantum computing. In a new study published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220191","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}