{"id":113559,"date":"2020-09-29T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/quantum-entanglement-realized-between-distant-large-objects"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:23:44","slug":"quantum-entanglement-realized-between-distant-large-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/quantum-entanglement-realized-between-distant-large-objects","title":{"rendered":"Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-entanglement-realized-between-distant-large-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. The result has several potential applications in ultra-precise sensing and quantum communication and is now published in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Entanglement is the basis for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+communication\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum communication<\/a> and quantum sensing. It can be understood as a quantum link between two objects which makes them behave as a single quantum object.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers succeeded in making entanglement between a mechanical oscillator\u2014a vibrating dielectric membrane\u2014and a cloud of atoms, each acting as a tiny magnet, or what physicists call \u201cspin.\u201d These very different entities were possible to entangle by connecting them with photons, particles of light. Atoms can be useful in processing quantum information and the membrane\u2014or mechanical quantum systems in general\u2014can be useful for storage of quantum information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. The result has several potential applications in ultra-precise sensing and quantum communication and is now published in Nature Physics. Entanglement is the basis for quantum communication and quantum sensing. It can be understood as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113559","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\/113559","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}