What is the quantum mirage?
Today, MP3 players that are smaller than the book Book can hold two gigabytes of information - enough space for about 500 songs. Regarding the capabilities, performance, speed and energy efficiency that can be wrapped in a mobile phone or a laptop, a phenomenon called Quantum Mirage represents that the surface may have been scratched so far. Basically, there is a quantum mirage phenomenon that indicates that data can be transmitted without conventional conductors.
In 1993, IBM scientists discovered the concept of quantum miracle. This discovery can be considered a turning point in the history of nanotechnology, although integrated circuits approach their limit in miniaturization. How advanced, how this technology happened depends on something invented in the 19th century - wires. Finally, the wires become too small on the efficient flow of electrons and the connection deteriorates. On the atomic circuits . Instead of flowing through the wires, the information in this atomic perimeter runs on the wave in the sea of electrons.
team in IBM, led by Don EiglErem, he founded an experiment to prove a quantum miracle in action. Using scanning, tunneling microscope they assembled an ellipse with a diameter of 5,000 times less than in human hair. The ellipse was made up of a necklace of 36 cobalt atoms on the surface of a copper crystal chilled for four degrees above the absolute zero.
used an ellipse because as a geometric shape has at each end of its long axis what is called focusing points. If you draw a line from one focus point to any point on the ellipse, then the focus point will be at the opposite point, the distance will always be the same.
used copper because it is non -magnetic and cobalt atoms are magnetic. They put copper into a deep freezing When it is so cold, the electrons in the copper create a resonance called Kondo effect when the cobalt atom comes with them. Kondo effect is the idea that electrical resistance varies when the temperature is close to 0 Kelvin.
ellipse of atoms kobaLTU consisted of a corral containing electrons from a copper crystal. As expected when IBM scientists used scanning, the tunnel microscope to place the atom in the ellipse saw Kondo effect. However, when they moved the cobalt atom to one of the target points on the ellipse, the effect of the Kondo appeared at the second point of focus.
essentially resonance created by the atom of the magnetic cobalt interacting with non -magnetic copper electrons passed through the wool through the electrons contained in the cobalt necklace to the second focus point. All this despite the fact that the atom was not there. Scientists dubbed this effect Quantum Mirage.
ibm scientists theorized that quantum Mirage May will be operated in a way similar to focusing light with lenses or sound with parabolic reflectors. However, technology has a long way. The tunneling microscope, which connects the necklace of atoms with scanning, requires a lot of time and energy. However, if this process can be accelerated and improved, imagine that one day people can store10,000 songs to a microscopic MP3 player implanted in the inner ear. Why not? With phenomena such as Quantum Mirage existing in space, anything is possible.