{"id":221636,"date":"2025-09-10T03:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-measured-the-pulse-of-an-atoms-magnetic-heart-in-real-time"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:36:49","slug":"physicists-measured-the-pulse-of-an-atoms-magnetic-heart-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-measured-the-pulse-of-an-atoms-magnetic-heart-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Measured The Pulse of an Atom\u2019s Magnetic Heart in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-measured-the-pulse-of-an-atoms-magnetic-heart-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pulse of an atom\u2019s magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been timed in a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists used a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scanning_tunneling_microscope\">scanning tunneling microscope<\/a> to observe electrons as they moved in sync with the nucleus of an atom of titanium-49, allowing them to estimate the duration of the core\u2019s magnetic beat in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-63232-5\">they write in their paper<\/a>, \u201cgive an atomic-scale insight into the nature of nuclear spin relaxation and are relevant for the development of atomically assembled qubit platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pulse of an atom\u2019s magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been timed in a laboratory. Physicists used a scanning tunneling microscope to observe electrons as they moved in sync with the nucleus of an atom of titanium-49, allowing them to estimate the duration of the core\u2019s magnetic beat [\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-221636","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\/221636","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=221636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}