While quantum computing seems like the big-ticket item among the developing technologies based on the behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level, another direction promises to open a new door for scientific research itself—quantum microscopy.
With the advance of quantum technologies, new microscopy modalities are becoming possible—ones that can see electric currents, detect fluctuating magnetic fields, and even see single molecules on a surface.
A prototype of such a microscope, demonstrating high resolution sensitivity, has been developed by an Australian research team headed by Professor Igor Aharonovich of the University of Technology Sydney and Dr. Jean-Philippe Tetienne of RMIT University. The team's findings have now been published in Nature Physics.
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