{"id":118475,"date":"2021-01-13T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/pivotal-discovery-in-quantum-and-classical-information-processing"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:23:54","slug":"pivotal-discovery-in-quantum-and-classical-information-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/pivotal-discovery-in-quantum-and-classical-information-processing","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pivotal-discovery-in-quantum-and-classical-information-processing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working with theorists in the University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have achieved a scientific control that is a first of its kind. They demonstrated a novel approach that allows real-time control of the interactions between microwave photons and magnons, potentially leading to advances in electronic devices and quantum signal processing.<\/p>\n<p>Microwave photons are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/elementary+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">elementary particles<\/a> forming the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electromagnetic+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electromagnetic waves<\/a> that we use for wireless communications. On the other hand, magnons are the elementary particles forming what scientists call \u201cspin waves\u201d\u2014wave-like disturbances in an ordered array of microscopic aligned spins that can occur in certain magnetic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Microwave photon-magnon interaction has emerged in recent years as a promising platform for both classical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> processing. Yet, this interaction had proved impossible to manipulate in real time, until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with theorists in the University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have achieved a scientific control that is a first of its kind. They demonstrated a novel approach that allows real-time control of the interactions between microwave photons and magnons, potentially leading [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118475","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}