{"id":222992,"date":"2025-10-07T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/quantum-uncertainty-captured-in-real-time-using-femtosecond-light-pulses"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:24:19","slug":"quantum-uncertainty-captured-in-real-time-using-femtosecond-light-pulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/quantum-uncertainty-captured-in-real-time-using-femtosecond-light-pulses","title":{"rendered":"Quantum uncertainty captured in real time using femtosecond light pulses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-uncertainty-captured-in-real-time-using-femtosecond-light-pulses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light. Their discovery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41377-025-02055-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Light: Science &amp; Applications<\/i>, could lead to more secure communication and the development of ultrafast quantum optics.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the breakthrough is \u201csqueezed light,\u201d said Mohammed Hassan, the paper\u2019s corresponding author and associate professor of physics and optical sciences.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum physics<\/a>, light is identified by two linked properties that roughly correspond to a particle\u2019s position and intensity\u2014but can never be known with perfect precision, a concept known as uncertainty. The product of these two measurements cannot fall below a certain threshold, much like the fixed amount of air in a balloon, with each measurement representing one side of the balloon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light. Their discovery, published in the journal Light: Science &amp; Applications, could lead to more secure communication and the development of ultrafast quantum optics. At the heart of the breakthrough is [\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-222992","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\/222992","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=222992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}