{"id":155684,"date":"2023-01-17T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/lab-develops-new-method-for-on-chip-generation-of-single-photon"},"modified":"2023-01-17T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:23:03","slug":"lab-develops-new-method-for-on-chip-generation-of-single-photon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/lab-develops-new-method-for-on-chip-generation-of-single-photon","title":{"rendered":"Lab develops new method for on-chip generation of single photon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-develops-new-method-for-on-chip-generation-of-single-photon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As buzz grows ever louder over the future of quantum, researchers everywhere are working overtime to discover how best to unlock the promise of super-positioned, entangled, tunneling or otherwise ready-for-primetime quantum particles, the ability of which to occur in two states at once could vastly expand power and efficiency in many applications.<\/p>\n<p>Developmentally, however, quantum devices today are \u201cabout where the computer was in the 1950s,\u201d which it is to say, the very beginning. That\u2019s according to Kamyar Parto, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the UC Santa Barbara lab of Galan Moody, an expert in quantum photonics and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Parto is co-lead author of a paper published in the journal <i>Nano Letters<\/i>, describing a key advance: the development of a kind of on-chip \u201cfactory\u201d for producing a steady, fast stream of single photons, essential to enabling photonic-based quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As buzz grows ever louder over the future of quantum, researchers everywhere are working overtime to discover how best to unlock the promise of super-positioned, entangled, tunneling or otherwise ready-for-primetime quantum particles, the ability of which to occur in two states at once could vastly expand power and efficiency in many applications. Developmentally, however, quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155684","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\/155684","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=155684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}