Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have harnessed the phenomenon of “quantum squeezing” to amplify and measure trillionths-of-a-meter motions of a lone trapped magnesium ion (electrically charged atom).
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-team-supersizes-quantum-ultrasmall-motion.html