{"id":122052,"date":"2021-04-28T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physicists-harnessed-thousands-of-molecules-into-a-single-quantum-state"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:22:38","slug":"physicists-harnessed-thousands-of-molecules-into-a-single-quantum-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physicists-harnessed-thousands-of-molecules-into-a-single-quantum-state","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Harnessed Thousands of Molecules Into a Single Quantum State"},"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\/OAGfx7eB3gA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a major milestone for quantum physics, thousands of molecules have been induced to share the same quantum state, dancing together in unison like one huge super molecule.<\/p>\n<p>This is a goal long-sought by physicists, who hope to harness complex quantum systems for technological applications \u2014 but getting a bunch of unruly molecules to work together is on a difficulty par with herding cats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been trying to do this for decades, so we\u2019re very excited,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2021-04\/uoc-ush042221.php\">said physicist Cheng Chin<\/a> from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major milestone for quantum physics, thousands of molecules have been induced to share the same quantum state, dancing together in unison like one huge super molecule. This is a goal long-sought by physicists, who hope to harness complex quantum systems for technological applications \u2014 but getting a bunch of unruly molecules to work [\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-122052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052","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=122052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}