{"id":236353,"date":"2026-05-01T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/physicists-achieve-first-ever-quadsqueezing-quantum-interaction"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:29:15","slug":"physicists-achieve-first-ever-quadsqueezing-quantum-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/physicists-achieve-first-ever-quadsqueezing-quantum-interaction","title":{"rendered":"Physicists achieve first-ever \u2018quadsqueezing\u2019 quantum interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-achieve-first-ever-quadsqueezing-quantum-interaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion. By creating and controlling increasingly complex forms of \u201csqueezing\u201d \u2013 including a fourth-order effect known as quadsqueezing \u2013 the team has, for the first time, made previously unreachable quantum effects experimentally accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The approach also provides a new way to engineer these interactions, with potential applications in quantum simulation, sensing, and computing. Their results have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03222-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Many systems in physics behave like tiny objects that vibrate or swing back and forth, like a spring or a pendulum. In quantum physics, these are known as quantum harmonic oscillators. Light waves, vibrations in molecules, and even the motion of a single trapped atom can all be described in this way. Controlling these systems is important for quantum technologies, from ultra-precise sensors to new kinds of quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion. By creating and controlling increasingly complex forms of \u201csqueezing\u201d \u2013 including a fourth-order effect known as quadsqueezing \u2013 the team has, for the first time, made previously unreachable quantum effects experimentally accessible. The approach also provides [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236353","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\/236353","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=236353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}