{"id":117501,"date":"2020-12-21T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:22:56","slug":"a-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times","title":{"rendered":"A state of vibration that exists simultaneously at two different times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNlJTzWMgEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has an exciting feature: a single event can exist in a state of superposition \u2013 happening bothhereandthere, or bothtodayandtomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Such superposition is quite challenging to create as they are easily destroyed if any information about the event\u2019s place and time leaks into the surrounding \u2013 and even if nobody records this information. Once superposition is created, they lead to observations that are very different from that of classical physics, questioning down to our very understanding of space and time.<\/p>\n<p>Recently scientists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/epfl\">EPFL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/mit\">MIT<\/a>, and CEA Saclay demonstrate a state of vibration simultaneously at two different times. They evidence this quantum superposition by measuring the strongest class of quantum correlations between light beams that interact with the vibration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics has an exciting feature: a single event can exist in a state of superposition \u2013 happening bothhereandthere, or bothtodayandtomorrow. Such superposition is quite challenging to create as they are easily destroyed if any information about the event\u2019s place and time leaks into the surrounding \u2013 and even if nobody records this information. Once [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117501","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=117501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}