In repeating their experimental setup thousands of times, they observed that the reversal magnified the quantum phenomena by up to 15 times. By using the red laser and observing the results, the team confirmed that this was the case. Scientists have theorized for decades that a system can have its energy reversed in this way, and anything that had happened to the entangled system would be magnified by the reversal. It’s known as “time reversal,” because it rewinds the quantum phenomenon. Then-and this is the big news-they use an opposite-acting red laser to pull the atoms back out of entanglement.
Once the atoms are super slowed down by the extreme cold, the scientists use a blue “entangling” laser that puts the atoms into the state of entanglement: a quantum state where the atoms act together even though they are separated by a distance, sometimes even a large distance.
In the MIT experiment, the ytterbium cloud is held by a system of lasers and cooled to near absolute zero. Ytterbium is popular for another application, quantum computing, where it is also trapped in place by lasers and then stimulated. In an atomic clock, the atoms are trapped by lasers and “provoked” by yet more lasers. Ytterbium is the global leader in atomic clocks, and holds the record for the absolute least time lost overall-something like one quintillionth of a second, compared with times when the best clocks all lost 15 minutes or more each day.
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To study how to boost the quantum phenomena, the scientists made clouds of between 50 and 400 atoms of the metallic element ytterbium. In this case, the solution involves something that sounds outlandish: turning time backward. And they’re not alone-the search for dark matter is one of the most pressing questions in physics! So everyone is very interested in finding a way that we can boost these phenomena into the realm of observability. The physicists at MIT have observed that tiny phenomena are still escaping the notice of our instruments. We’ve done all we can to make a finer screen-now we need to bulk up the gold if we can. It’s like we’re trying to sift riverbed dirt to find gold, but our screen gauge is just still too wide. Yes, slowing the atoms down lets us observe a lot about them, but many other phenomena are too tiny to see, even then, and even with the best tools available. Or, that is, the naked eye of the electron microscope or other extremely fine-tuned instrument.īut there’s still a problem. At that point, the atoms’ movements are slowed a great deal, making them parseable to the naked eye. Basically, physicists can take atoms of different elements and supercool them until they’re as close to absolute zero as we can reasonably manage.
Quantum phenomena are in desperate need of a volume boost. Maybe you’ve tried to watch a video where even the highest sound setting isn’t loud enough on your phone, and then downloaded a “volume booster” program to somehow turn everything up to 11-who knew that was possible? How do you make quiet things louder? You amplify them. Yes, this research is cool and scientific, but we can all relate to the fundamental question here. Their paper appears now in Nature Physics. Their method could lead the way to better measurements of many tiny phenomena, from atomic clocks to the search for elusive dark matter. In new research, scientists from MIT have discovered a way to amplify the hard-to-read signals from particles in quantum relationships. When reversed, the atoms show up to 15x magnified qualities.The process uses alternating lasers to entangle and disentangle atoms.Physicists at MIT are turning time backward to study quantum phenomena.
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