{"id":38035,"date":"2025-02-25T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=38035"},"modified":"2025-03-24T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:09:33","slug":"using-quantum-property-of-nanocrystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/25-02-2025\/using-quantum-property-of-nanocrystals","title":{"rendered":"Using Quantum Property of the Nanocrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scientists have devised a new way to check whether<strong> gravity is quantum-mechanical<\/strong> using nanocrystals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>General relativity <\/strong>explains gravity, while <strong>quantum mechanics <\/strong>describes the electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear forces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scientists are <strong>exploring how gravity fits into quantum mechanics, <\/strong>with experiments proposed to test gravity\u2019s quantum nature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quantum mechanics<\/strong> studies particle behavior at the quantum level, where classical physics no longer applies.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Quantum technology <\/strong>utilizes quantum properties like superposition and entanglement to perform tasks previously thought impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nanocrystals <\/strong>are tiny crystalline structures, typically 1 to 100 nm in size, exhibiting quantum mechanical behaviors (e.g., changes in conductivity, magnetism, light absorption).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use of Nanocrystals:<\/strong> Scientists have proposed using <strong>a quantum property of the nanocrystals called spin.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The spin affects the nanocrystals\u2019 motion and can be manipulated by an external magnetic field.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The spin of each nanocrystal exists in a superposition of two states until it is measured.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Test outcomes: <\/strong>Experts believe it may reveal that gravity is not a classical force, or it may suggest gravity is something entirely different from both classical and quantum forces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/tabletop-experiment-gravity-quantumness-test-nanocrystals\/article69226228.ece#:~:text=To%20do%20so%2C%20the%20authors,states%20until%20it%20is%20measured.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have devised a new way to check whether gravity is quantum-mechanical using nanocrystals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38037,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035\/revisions\/38037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}