{"id":236324,"date":"2026-05-01T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/oxford-team-achieves-advanced-quantum-squeezing-with-trapped-ion"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:17:14","slug":"oxford-team-achieves-advanced-quantum-squeezing-with-trapped-ion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/oxford-team-achieves-advanced-quantum-squeezing-with-trapped-ion","title":{"rendered":"Oxford team achieves advanced quantum squeezing with trapped ion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdv4DSlFOeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is more than the creation of a new quantum state. It is a demonstration of a new method for engineering interactions that were previously out of reach,\u201d said Dr. Oana B\u0103z\u0103van, lead author from the Department of Physics, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fourth-order quadsqueezing interaction was generated more than 100 times faster than expected using conventional approaches. This makes effects that were previously out of reach accessible in practice,\u201d B\u0103z\u0103van added.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long used a trick called \u201csqueezing\u201d to sharpen the fuzzy measurements of the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/nine-atoms-beat-classical-ai-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">subatomic<\/a> world. It is why gravitational-wave detectors, like LIGO, can hear black holes colliding across the universe. But for all its utility, ordinary squeezing is a relatively simple, second-order effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe result is more than the creation of a new quantum state. It is a demonstration of a new method for engineering interactions that were previously out of reach,\u201d said Dr. Oana B\u0103z\u0103van, lead author from the Department of Physics, University of Oxford. \u201cThe fourth-order quadsqueezing interaction was generated more than 100 times faster than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236324","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}