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A tiny detector for microwave photons could advance quantum tech
- April 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnetic radiation used in current technologies like Wi-Fi and radar, carry far less energy than visible light. They are about 100,000 times weaker than optical photons.
Originally published at Phys.org