{"id":115117,"date":"2020-10-26T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/in-new-milestone-physicists-store-and-transport-light-using-quantum-memory"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:22:59","slug":"in-new-milestone-physicists-store-and-transport-light-using-quantum-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/in-new-milestone-physicists-store-and-transport-light-using-quantum-memory","title":{"rendered":"In New Milestone, Physicists Store And Transport Light Using Quantum Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-new-milestone-physicists-store-and-transport-light-using-quantum-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stored the light by putting it in a suitcase so to speak, only that in our case the suitcase was made of a cloud of cold atoms,\u201d says physicist Patrick Windpassinger from Mainz University in Germany. \u201cWe moved this suitcase over a short distance and then took the light out again.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The storage and transfer of information is a fundamental part of any computing system, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computing\">quantum computing<\/a> systems are no different \u2013 if we\u2019re going to benefit from the speed and security of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computers\">quantum computers<\/a> and a quantum internet, then we need to figure out how to shift quantum data around.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways scientists are approaching this is through optical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantum memory<\/a>, or using light to store data as maps of particle states, and a new study reports on what researchers are calling a milestone in the field: the successful storage and transfer of light using quantum memory.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers weren\u2019t able to transfer the light very far \u2013 just 1.2 millimetres or 0.05 inches \u2013 but the process outlined here could form the foundation of the quantum-powered computers and communication systems of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stored the light by putting it in a suitcase so to speak, only that in our case the suitcase was made of a cloud of cold atoms,\u201d says physicist Patrick Windpassinger from Mainz University in Germany. \u201cWe moved this suitcase over a short distance and then took the light out again. The storage and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1965,48,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-mapping","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115117","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\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}