Scientists flip single atom's nuclear spin using radio waves

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Atom nuclei are largely shielded against their environment and therefore difficult to stimulate. At a single titanium atom, physicists have now triggered transitions between nuclear spin states with radio waves, although nuclear spin and electron spin were hardly mixed together. This could be important for quantum technology, but the cause of the stimulation is still unclear. Delft (Netherlands). Certain atomic nuclei possess a magnetic [...] De…

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Scientists from the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands) have learned to control the nuclear back of a separate atom by means of radio frequency signals sent through the needle of a scan tunnel microscope. "It was a surprise: physicists still thought it was impossible to directly influence the nuclear back," they write in Eurokalert with a reference to the article. Read further...

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Interesting Engineering attributes to radio waves the change in the nuclear spin of a single atom. Delft University reported that researchers observed changes between nuclear spin states, while a Nature Communications article describes the reading of the spin of an individual titanium atom. Available sources do not confirm that radio waves were the mechanism used.