SocialPipeline 04/11/2011 (p.m.)

• Scientists view a quantum jump in real time

  • “When the jump is made, it modifies the resonant frequency of an adjacent circuit which we continuously probe with on average a few microwave photons,” Siddiqi explains. “The emission is spontaneous, so you don’t know when it will happen. We now had the ability to detect an individual jump. By tallying the jump times, we reproduced the average ensemble behavior that we were all familiar with..”

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