{"id":223037,"date":"2025-10-07T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-develop-new-quantum-sensor-at-the-atomic-lattice-scale"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:17","slug":"physicists-develop-new-quantum-sensor-at-the-atomic-lattice-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-develop-new-quantum-sensor-at-the-atomic-lattice-scale","title":{"rendered":"Physicists develop new quantum sensor at the atomic lattice scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-develop-new-quantum-sensor-at-the-atomic-lattice-scale2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From computer chips to quantum dots\u2014technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the used solid-state materials, such as silicon or more complex semiconductor materials. This understanding also includes being able to identify and control irregularities in the crystal lattice of such materials.<\/p>\n<p>If, for example, an atom is missing in the lattice structure of the crystals, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+electron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single electron<\/a> and thus an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+charge\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric charge<\/a> can become trapped there. Such charge traps generate electromagnetic noise that limits the functionality of these materials. However, it is extremely difficult to locate these charge traps on an atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the \u201cIntegrated Quantum Photonics\u201d group at the Department of Physics at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin (HU) and the \u201cJoint Lab Diamond Nanophotonics\u201d at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, led by Prof. Dr. Tim Schr\u00f6der, have developed a new sensor that can detect such individual electrical charges more precisely than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From computer chips to quantum dots\u2014technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the used solid-state materials, such as silicon or more complex semiconductor materials. This understanding also includes being able to identify and control irregularities in the crystal lattice of such materials. If, for example, an atom is missing in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223037","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\/223037","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}