{"id":107139,"date":"2020-05-16T02:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-just-built-the-first-working-prototype-of-a-quantum-radar"},"modified":"2020-05-16T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:02:51","slug":"physicists-just-built-the-first-working-prototype-of-a-quantum-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-just-built-the-first-working-prototype-of-a-quantum-radar","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Built The First Working Prototype Of A \u2018Quantum Radar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-built-the-first-working-prototype-of-a-quantum-radar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_entanglement\">Quantum entanglement<\/a> \u2013 that strange but potentially hugely useful quantum phenomenon where two particles are inextricably linked across space and time \u2013 could play a major role in future radar technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.1160627\">In 2008<\/a>, an engineer from MIT devised a way to use the features of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"entanglement\">entanglement<\/a> to illuminate objects while using barely any photons. In certain scenarios, such technology promises to outperform conventional radar, according to its makers, particularly in noisy thermal environments.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have taken the idea much further, demonstrating its potential with a working prototype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum entanglement \u2013 that strange but potentially hugely useful quantum phenomenon where two particles are inextricably linked across space and time \u2013 could play a major role in future radar technology. In 2008, an engineer from MIT devised a way to use the features of entanglement to illuminate objects while using barely any photons. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}