{"id":153067,"date":"2022-12-17T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-peculiar-protected-structure-links-viking-knots-with-quantum-vortices"},"modified":"2022-12-17T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:22:40","slug":"a-peculiar-protected-structure-links-viking-knots-with-quantum-vortices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-peculiar-protected-structure-links-viking-knots-with-quantum-vortices","title":{"rendered":"A peculiar protected structure links Viking knots with quantum vortices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-peculiar-protected-structure-links-viking-knots-with-quantum-vortices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have shown how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. The structure of the links resembles a pattern used by Vikings and other ancient cultures, although this study focused on vortices in a special form of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The findings have implications for quantum computing, particle physics and other fields.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in the journal Communications Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Postdoctoral researcher Toni Annala uses strings and water vortices to explain the phenomenon: \u201cIf you make a link structure out of, say, three unbroken strings in a circle, you can\u2019t unravel it because the string can\u2019t go through another string. If, on the other hand, the same circular structure is made in water, the water vortices can collide and merge if they are not protected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have shown how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. The structure of the links resembles a pattern used by Vikings and other ancient cultures, although this study focused on vortices in a special form of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The findings have implications for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153067","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}