{"id":244192,"date":"2026-09-18T02:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/real-time-quantum-jump-in-sound-observed-for-first-time"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:26:47","slug":"real-time-quantum-jump-in-sound-observed-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/real-time-quantum-jump-in-sound-observed-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Real-time quantum jump in sound observed for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-time-quantum-jump-in-sound-observed-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started more than 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum jumps\u2014sudden transitions from one energy state to another\u2014have been theorized since the early 1900s. Scientists first demonstrated these jumps in trapped ions in 1986 and later in photons, the fundamental particles of light, in 2007. Observing quantum jumps of sound had remained elusive, but a team led by Stanford physicist Amir Safavi-Naeini has recorded these phenomena, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeh7535\" target=\"_blank\">publishing<\/a> the findings in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this study shows will allow us to move forward with developing new quantum technologies with sound,\u201d said Safavi-Naeini, associate professor of applied physics in the Stanford School of Humanities and <i>Science<\/i>s. \u201cWe have seen that vibrating objects can exhibit quantum behavior, which is the prerequisite for many of the operations needed by quantum computing and sensing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started more than 100 years ago. Quantum jumps\u2014sudden transitions from one energy state to another\u2014have been theorized since the early 1900s. Scientists first demonstrated these jumps in trapped ions in [\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-244192","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\/244192","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=244192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}