{"id":223416,"date":"2025-10-15T03:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-achieve-atomic-scale-control-of-quantum-interference"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:12:23","slug":"researchers-achieve-atomic-scale-control-of-quantum-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-achieve-atomic-scale-control-of-quantum-interference","title":{"rendered":"Researchers achieve atomic-scale control of quantum interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-achieve-atomic-scale-control-of-quantum-interference.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-64022-9\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>, a research team demonstrates the all-electrical control of quantum interference in individual atomic spins on a surface.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum interference arises when a system exists in a superposition of states, with relative phases producing constructive or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/destructive+interference\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">destructive interference<\/a>. An example is Landau-Zener-St\u00fcckelberg-Majorana (LZSM) interference, which arises when a quantum two-level system is repeatedly driven through an anticrossing in the energy-level diagram, and undergoes multiple nonadiabatic transitions.<\/p>\n<p>This mechanism is a powerful tool for fast and reliable quantum control, but it remains a significant challenge to achieve tunable LZSM interference in an atomic-scale quantum architecture where multiple spins can be precisely assembled and controllably coupled on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in Nature Communications, a research team demonstrates the all-electrical control of quantum interference in individual atomic spins on a surface. Quantum interference arises when a system exists in a superposition of states, with relative phases producing constructive or destructive interference. An example is Landau-Zener-St\u00fcckelberg-Majorana (LZSM) interference, which arises when a quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223416","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=223416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}