{"id":231069,"date":"2026-02-11T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mit-scientists-shrink-terahertz-light-to-reveal-hidden-quantum-jiggles"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:32:15","slug":"mit-scientists-shrink-terahertz-light-to-reveal-hidden-quantum-jiggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mit-scientists-shrink-terahertz-light-to-reveal-hidden-quantum-jiggles","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists Shrink Terahertz Light To Reveal Hidden Quantum \u201cJiggles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-shrink-terahertz-light-to-reveal-hidden-quantum-jiggles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kind of light you use can reveal very different things about a material. Visible light mainly shows what is happening at the surface. X-rays can probe structures inside. Infrared light highlights the heat a material gives off.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT have now turned to terahertz light to uncover quantum vibrations in a superconducting material, signals that scientists have not been able to observe directly until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kind of light you use can reveal very different things about a material. Visible light mainly shows what is happening at the surface. X-rays can probe structures inside. Infrared light highlights the heat a material gives off. Researchers at MIT have now turned to terahertz light to uncover quantum vibrations in a superconducting material, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231069","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=231069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}