Moved By Light - Science News: While other scientists built stuff that shook thousands or millions of times a second, he created a ceramic wafer 30 micro-meters long that expanded and contracted 6 billion times per second. The faster an object’s natural quiver, the easier it is to remove energy, meaning less cooling needed to reach the ground state. Using a state-of-the-art liquid-helium refrigerator capable of achieving millikelvin temperatures, Cleland’s team put the wafer in its ground state 93 percent of the time.
By measuring the electric fields produced by this object, Cleland and his colleagues showed that they could nudge the wafer into a state of superposition — both moving and still at the same time.
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