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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a “quantum microphoneö that’s sensitive enough to measure the individual particles of sound known as “phonons.ö“We expect this device to allow new types of quantum sensors, transducers and storage devices for future quantum machines,ö said study leader Amir Safavi-Naeini, assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford in a university blog post.Phonons are individual packets of vibrational energy that often manifest as sound or heat. But measuring individual phonons, according to Stanford, has been impossible until now.“One phonon corresponds to an energy ten trillion trillion times smaller than the energy required to keep a lightbulb on for one second,ö said graduate student Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, a co-first author of the study, that was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.Nanoscale ResonatorsRather than sound moving a membrane inside an ordinary microphone, the quantum microphone uses supercooled resonators, according to Stanford — so small they can only be seen through an electron microscope — that act as a “mirror of sound.öThe device could lay the groundwork for a new way to store information encoded as phonons rather than relying on photons which current quantum computers rely on for encoding information. That could make future mechanical quantum computers even more compact and efficient as phonons are easier to manipulate and have much smaller wavelengths than light particles.“Sound has this granularity that we don’t normally experience,ö Safavi-Naeini said. “Sound, at the quantum level, crackles.ö
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