{"id":89920,"date":"2019-04-24T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/atom-interaction-discovery-valuable-for-future-quantum-technologies"},"modified":"2019-04-24T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:42:50","slug":"atom-interaction-discovery-valuable-for-future-quantum-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/atom-interaction-discovery-valuable-for-future-quantum-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Atom interaction discovery valuable for future quantum technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-interaction-discovery-valuable-for-future-quantum-technologies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By breaking with conventionality, University of Otago physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities involving the basic building block of the world\u2014atoms.<\/p>\n<p>In a study, just published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, researchers put one atom inside each of two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+beams\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser beams<\/a> before moving them together until they started to interact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Associate Professor Mikkel F. Andersen, of the Department of Physics, says this allows the atoms to exchange properties in a way which could be \u201cvery useful\u201d for future quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-atom-interaction-discovery-valuable-future.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By breaking with conventionality, University of Otago physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities involving the basic building block of the world\u2014atoms. In a study, just published in Nature Communications, researchers put one atom inside each of two laser beams before moving them together until they started to interact with each other. Co-author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920","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=89920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}