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Stanford researchers have directly observed quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator for the first time, marking the latest milestone in a line of quantum physics research that stretches back more than a century.
Quantum jumps -- sudden transitions from one energy state to another -- have been part of quantum theory since the early 1900s. Researchers first demonstrated them in trapped ions in 1986, followed by photons, the fundamental particles of ligh...
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