{"id":221819,"date":"2025-09-13T03:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-quantum-sensors-can-withstand-extreme-pressure"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:34:39","slug":"new-quantum-sensors-can-withstand-extreme-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-quantum-sensors-can-withstand-extreme-pressure","title":{"rendered":"New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-sensors-can-withstand-extreme-pressure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put under immense pressure? Observing quantum effects under pressure has proven difficult for a simple reason: Designing sensors that can withstand extreme forces is challenging.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant advance, a team led by physicists at WashU has created <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum sensors<\/a> in an unbreakable sheet of crystallized <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/boron+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">boron nitride<\/a>. The sensors can measure stress and magnetism in materials under pressure that exceeds 30,000 times the pressure of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the first ones to develop this sort of high-pressure sensor,\u201d said Chong Zu, an assistant professor of physics in Arts &amp; Sciences and a member of Washington University in St. Louis\u2019 Center for Quantum Leaps. \u201cIt could have a wide range of applications in fields ranging from quantum technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/material+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">material science<\/a>, to astronomy and geology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put under immense pressure? Observing quantum effects under pressure has proven difficult for a simple reason: Designing sensors that can withstand extreme forces is challenging. In a significant advance, a team led by physicists at WashU [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221819","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=221819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}