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Adding or subtracting single quanta of sound – Phys.org
Researchers perform experiments that can add or subtract a single quantum of sound—with surprising results when applied to noisy sound fields.
Researchers perform experiments that can add or subtract a single quantum of soundwith surprising results when applied to noisy sound fields.
Quantum mechanics tells us that physical objects can have both wave and particle properties. For instance, a single particleor quantumof light is known as a photon, and, in a similar fashion, a single quantum of sound is known as a phonon, which can be thought of as the smallest unit of sound energy.
A team of researchers spanning Imperial College London,…
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