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Seeing quantum mechanics with the naked eye

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Ashley N. Paddock, [email protected]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – A new semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light, yet is large enough to see with the naked eye, could lay the groundwork for a new generation of ultrasensitive gyroscopes. Quantum mechanics normally shows its influence over tiny particles only at ultralow temperatures, but the chip’s developers, scientists at the University of Cambridge, mixed electrons with light to synthesize supersize quantum particles that behave like superconductors. Building microscopic cavities that tightly trap light into the vicinity of electrons within the...Read full article

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    Published: March 2012
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    quantum mechanics
    The science of all complex elements of atomic and molecular spectra, and the interaction of radiation and matter.
    EnglandEuro NewsEuropeGab ChristmanngyroscopesImagingNewspolaritonsquantum circuitsquantum mechanicsquantum state electronsquantum superfluidsemiconductor chipultrasensitive detectorsultrasensitive gyroscopesUniversity of CambridgeLasers

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