{"id":141744,"date":"2022-07-06T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-spooky-quantum-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:23:11","slug":"the-spooky-quantum-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-spooky-quantum-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of","title":{"rendered":"The Spooky Quantum Phenomenon You\u2019ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-spooky-quantum-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Cabello and others are interested in investigating a lesser-known but equally magical aspect of quantum mechanics: contextuality. Contextuality says that properties of particles, such as their position or polarization, exist only within the context of a measurement. Instead of thinking of particles\u2019 properties as having fixed values, consider them more like words in language, whose meanings can change depending on the context: \u201cTime flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although contextuality has lived in nonlocality\u2019s shadow for over 50 years, quantum physicists now consider it more of a hallmark feature of quantum systems than nonlocality is. A single particle, for instance, is a quantum system \u201cin which you cannot even think about nonlocality,\u201d since the particle is only in one location, said B\u00e1rbara Amaral, a physicist at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil. \u201cSo [contextuality] is more general in some sense, and I think this is important to really understand the power of quantum systems and to go deeper into why quantum theory is the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have also found tantalizing links between contextuality and problems that quantum computers can efficiently solve that ordinary computers cannot; investigating these links could help guide researchers in developing new quantum computing approaches and algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Cabello and others are interested in investigating a lesser-known but equally magical aspect of quantum mechanics: contextuality. Contextuality says that properties of particles, such as their position or polarization, exist only within the context of a measurement. Instead of thinking of particles\u2019 properties as having fixed values, consider them more like words in language, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141744","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=141744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}