{"id":87475,"date":"2019-02-06T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-research-signals-big-future-for-quantum-radar"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:43:49","slug":"new-research-signals-big-future-for-quantum-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-research-signals-big-future-for-quantum-radar","title":{"rendered":"New research signals big future for quantum radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-signals-big-future-for-quantum-radar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A prototype quantum radar that has the potential to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systems has been developed by an international research team led by a quantum information scientist at the University of York.<\/p>\n<p>The new breed of radar is a hybrid system that uses <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> correlation between microwave and optical beams to detect objects of low reflectivity such as cancer cells or aircraft with a stealth capability. Because the quantum radar operates at much lower energies than conventional systems, it has the long-term potential for a range of applications in biomedicine including non-invasive NMR scans.<\/p>\n<p>The research team led by Dr Stefano Pirandola, of the University\u2019s Department of Computer Science and the York Centre for Quantum Technologies, found that a special converter \u2014 a double-cavity device that couples the microwave beam to an optical beam using a nano-mechanical oscillator \u2014 was the key to the new system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-02-big-future-quantum-radar.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015&#45;02-big-future-quantum-radar.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prototype quantum radar that has the potential to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systems has been developed by an international research team led by a quantum information scientist at the University of York. The new breed of radar is a hybrid system that uses quantum correlation between microwave and optical beams to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}