{"id":152124,"date":"2022-12-07T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/quantum-processor-reveals-bound-states-of-photons-hold-strong-even-in-the-midst-of-chaos"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:28:53","slug":"quantum-processor-reveals-bound-states-of-photons-hold-strong-even-in-the-midst-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/quantum-processor-reveals-bound-states-of-photons-hold-strong-even-in-the-midst-of-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Quantum processor reveals bound states of photons hold strong even in the midst of chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-processor-reveals-bound-states-of-photons-hold-strong-even-in-the-midst-of-chaos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have used a quantum processor to make microwave photons uncharacteristically sticky. They coaxed them to clump together into bound states, then found that these photon clusters survived in a regime where they were expected to dissolve into their usual, solitary states. The discovery was first made on a quantum processor, marking the growing role that these platforms are playing in studying quantum dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Photons\u2014quantum packets of electromagnetic radiation like light or microwaves\u2014typically don\u2019t interact with one another. Two crossed flashlight beams, for example, pass through one another undisturbed. But in an array of superconducting qubits, microwave photons can be made to interact.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cFormation of robust <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bound+states\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bound states<\/a> of interacting photons,\u201d published today in <i>Nature<\/i>, researchers at Google Quantum AI describe how they engineered this unusual situation. They studied a ring of 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting qubits<\/a> that could host <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microwave+photons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microwave photons<\/a>. By applying quantum gates to pairs of neighboring qubits, photons could travel around by hopping between neighboring sites and interacting with nearby photons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have used a quantum processor to make microwave photons uncharacteristically sticky. They coaxed them to clump together into bound states, then found that these photon clusters survived in a regime where they were expected to dissolve into their usual, solitary states. The discovery was first made on a quantum processor, marking the growing role [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152124","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=152124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}