{"id":97226,"date":"2019-10-09T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-vibration-produced-by-shooting-a-laser-at-a-diamond"},"modified":"2019-10-09T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T08:03:34","slug":"first-of-its-kind-quantum-vibration-produced-by-shooting-a-laser-at-a-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-vibration-produced-by-shooting-a-laser-at-a-diamond","title":{"rendered":"First-of-Its-Kind Quantum Vibration Produced by Shooting a Laser at a Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-vibration-produced-by-shooting-a-laser-at-a-diamond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have observed a quantum vibration at normal room temperature for the first time, a phenomenon that usually requires ultra-cold, carefully calibrated conditions \u2013 bringing us another step closer to understanding the behaviour of quantum mechanics in common materials.<\/p>\n<p>The team was able to spot a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phonon\">phonon<\/a>, a quantum particle of vibration generated from high-frequency laser pulses, in a piece of diamond. These phonons are notoriously hard to detect, partly because of their sensitivity to heat.<\/p>\n<p>What makes observing a phonon so important is that it shows a vibration acting as a single unit of energy (as described by quantum mechanics), as well as a wave (as described by classical physics). At room temperature in open air conditions, it brings quantum behaviour \u201ccloser to our daily life\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2019\/single-quantum-vibration-normal-1007\">in the words of the researchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have observed a quantum vibration at normal room temperature for the first time, a phenomenon that usually requires ultra-cold, carefully calibrated conditions \u2013 bringing us another step closer to understanding the behaviour of quantum mechanics in common materials. The team was able to spot a phonon, a quantum particle of vibration generated from high-frequency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97226","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\/97226","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=97226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}