{"id":123184,"date":"2021-05-29T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions"},"modified":"2021-05-29T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:22:19","slug":"quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Nanoscience Experiment in \u2018Science\u2019 Raises Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>J\u00dcLICH, Germany, May 28, 2021 \u2014 Quantum systems are considered extremely fragile. Even the smallest interactions with the environment can result in the loss of sensitive quantum effects. In the renowned journal <em>Science<\/em>, however, researchers from TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich now present an experiment in which a quantum system consisting of two coupled atoms behaves surprisingly stable under electron bombardment. The experiment provide an indication that special quantum states might be realised in a quantum computer more easily than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-nanoscience-experiment-in-science-raises-questions2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>The so-called decoherence is one of the greatest enemies of the quantum physicist. Experts understand by this the decay of quantum states. This inevitably occurs when the system interacts with its environment. In the macroscopic world, this exchange is unavoidable, which is why quantum effects rarely occur in daily life. The quantum systems used in research, such as individual atoms, electrons or photons, are better shielded, but are fundamentally similarly sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSystems subject to quantum physics, unlike classical objects, are not sharply defined in all their properties. Instead, they can occupy several states at once. This is called superposition,\u201d Markus Ternes explains. \u201cA famous example is Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s thought experiment with the cat, which is temporarily dead and alive at the same time. However, the superposition breaks down as soon as the system is disturbed or measured. What is left then is only a single state, which is the measured value,\u201d says the quantum physicist from Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and RWTH Aachen University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00dcLICH, Germany, May 28, 2021 \u2014 Quantum systems are considered extremely fragile. Even the smallest interactions with the environment can result in the loss of sensitive quantum effects. In the renowned journal Science, however, researchers from TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich now present an experiment in which a quantum system consisting of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123184","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=123184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}