{"id":76915,"date":"2018-03-14T17:43:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/darpa-is-funding-time-crystal-research"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:19","slug":"darpa-is-funding-time-crystal-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/darpa-is-funding-time-crystal-research","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Is Funding Time Crystal Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You probably scratched your head last year if you read about time crystals<\/a>, likely 2017\u2019s most esoteric, widely covered popular science story. Even if you understood how they worked, you might not<\/a> have known what use they could have. Time crystals, systems of atoms that maintain a periodic ticking behavior in the presence of an added electromagnetic pulse, have now piqued the interest of one well-funded government agency: the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

The DoD\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced a new program to fund research on these systems. More generally, the new DRINQS program will study exactly what its acronym stands for: \u201cDriven and Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems.\u201d But why?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe applications could be for atomic clocks, where you have an ensemble of atoms you\u2019re vibrating to extract time information,\u201d Ale Lukaszew, program manager in DARPA\u2019s defense sciences offices, told Gizmodo. \u201cThere might be applications related to measuring things with exquisite sensitivity in time and magnetic field domains. Not a lot of these applications are open for discussion.\u201d In other words, time crystal-based military technology is classified.<\/p>\n

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