{"id":111402,"date":"2020-08-16T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-just-found-a-way-to-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer"},"modified":"2020-08-16T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:24:19","slug":"scientists-just-found-a-way-to-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-just-found-a-way-to-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Found a Way to Make Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-a-way-to-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the major challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting super-delicate quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds \u2013 and scientists just raised the bar by a factor of about 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>They did it by tackling something called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_decoherence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decoherence<\/a>: that\u2019s the disruption from surrounding noise caused by vibrations, fluctuations in temperature, and interference from electromagnetic fields that can very easily break a quantum state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this approach, we don\u2019t try to eliminate noise in the surroundings,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/uchicago-scientists-discover-way-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says quantum engineer Kevin Miao<\/a>, from the University of Chicago. \u201cInstead, we trick the system into thinking it doesn\u2019t experience the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting super-delicate quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds \u2013 and scientists just raised the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did it by tackling something called decoherence: that\u2019s the disruption from surrounding noise caused by vibrations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111402","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=111402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}