{"id":79269,"date":"2018-06-04T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/physicists-use-terahertz-flashes-to-uncover-state-of-matter-hidden"},"modified":"2018-06-04T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T02:02:39","slug":"physicists-use-terahertz-flashes-to-uncover-state-of-matter-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/physicists-use-terahertz-flashes-to-uncover-state-of-matter-hidden","title":{"rendered":"Physicists use terahertz flashes to uncover state of matter hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-use-terahertz-flashes-to-uncover-state-of-matter-hidden.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy.<\/p>\n<p>It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons\u2014flashes\u2014hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed\u2014trillions of cycles per second\u2014to switch on this hidden state of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">matter<\/a> by modifying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> interactions down at the atomic and subatomic levels.<\/p>\n<p>And then it takes a second terahertz light to trigger an ultrafast camera to take images of the state of matter that, when fully understood and tuned, could one day have implications for faster, heat-free, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a>, information storage and communication.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-physicists-terahertz-uncover-state-hidden.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-physicists-terahertz-uncover-state-hidden.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy. It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons\u2014flashes\u2014hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed\u2014trillions of cycles per second\u2014to switch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79269","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=79269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}