{"id":144043,"date":"2022-08-15T21:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-explore-a-new-connection-between-topology-and-quantum-entanglement"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:51:46","slug":"researchers-explore-a-new-connection-between-topology-and-quantum-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-explore-a-new-connection-between-topology-and-quantum-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explore a new connection between topology and quantum entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-explore-a-new-connection-between-topology-and-quantum-entanglement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topology and entanglement are two powerful principles for characterizing the structure of complex quantum states. In a new paper in the journal <i>Physical Review X<\/i>, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania establish a relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work ties two big ideas together,\u201d says Charles Kane, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics in Penn\u2019s School of Arts &amp; Sciences. \u201cIt\u2019s a conceptual link between <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/topology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">topology<\/a>, which is a way of characterizing the universal features that quantum states have, and entanglement, which is a way in which quantum states can exhibit non-local correlations, where something that happens in one point in space is correlated with something that happens in another part in space. What we\u2019ve found is a situation where those concepts are tightly intertwined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seed for exploring this connection came during the long hours Kane spent in his home office during the pandemic, pondering new ideas. One train of thought had him envisioning the classic textbook image of the Fermi surface of copper, which represents the metal\u2019s potential electron energies. It\u2019s a picture every physics student sees, and one with which Kane was highly familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topology and entanglement are two powerful principles for characterizing the structure of complex quantum states. In a new paper in the journal Physical Review X, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania establish a relationship between the two. \u201cOur work ties two big ideas together,\u201d says Charles Kane, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144043","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144067,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144043\/revisions\/144067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}