{"id":95673,"date":"2019-09-02T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-have-finally-built-a-quantum-x-ray-device"},"modified":"2019-09-02T03:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:22:36","slug":"physicists-have-finally-built-a-quantum-x-ray-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-have-finally-built-a-quantum-x-ray-device","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Finally Built a Quantum X-Ray Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-finally-built-a-quantum-x-ray-device2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has just demonstrated quantum enhancement in an actual X-ray machine, achieving the desirable goal of eliminating background noise for precision detection.<\/p>\n<p>The relationships between photon pairs on quantum scales can be exploited to create sharper, higher-resolution images than classical optics. This emerging field is called quantum imaging, and it has some <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1601.06066\">really impressive potential<\/a> \u2014 particularly since, using optical light, it can be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=56486\">show objects that can\u2019t usually be seen<\/a>, like bones and organs.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum correlation describes a number of different relationships between photon pairs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Entanglement\">Entanglement<\/a> is one of these, and is applied in optical quantum imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has just demonstrated quantum enhancement in an actual X-ray machine, achieving the desirable goal of eliminating background noise for precision detection. The relationships between photon pairs on quantum scales can be exploited to create sharper, higher-resolution images than classical optics. This emerging field is called quantum imaging, and it has some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95673","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=95673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}