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Physicists catch sound making a quantum jump
Stanford researchers have observed abrupt changes in the energy of tiny units of sound inside a mechanical resonator.
The device takes hundreds of measurements within milliseconds to identify the transition. The experiment reported on 17 September tests quantum behaviour; any resulting computing or sensing applications remain future work.
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