{"id":163791,"date":"2023-05-13T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/qubits-30-meters-apart-used-to-confirm-einstein-was-wrong-about-quantum"},"modified":"2023-05-13T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:23:06","slug":"qubits-30-meters-apart-used-to-confirm-einstein-was-wrong-about-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/qubits-30-meters-apart-used-to-confirm-einstein-was-wrong-about-quantum","title":{"rendered":"Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qubits-30-meters-apart-used-to-confirm-einstein-was-wrong-about-quantum.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new experiment uses superconducting qubits to demonstrate that quantum mechanics violates what\u2019s called local realism by allowing two objects to behave as a single quantum system no matter how large the separation between them. The experiment wasn\u2019t the first to show that local realism isn\u2019t how the Universe works\u2014it\u2019s not even the first to do so with qubits.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the first to separate the qubits by enough distance to ensure that light isn\u2019t fast enough to travel between them while measurements are made. And it did so by cooling a 30-meter-long aluminum wire to just a few milliKelvin. Because the qubits are so easy to control, the experiment provides a new precision to these sorts of measurements. And the hardware setup may be essential for future quantum computing efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new experiment uses superconducting qubits to demonstrate that quantum mechanics violates what\u2019s called local realism by allowing two objects to behave as a single quantum system no matter how large the separation between them. The experiment wasn\u2019t the first to show that local realism isn\u2019t how the Universe works\u2014it\u2019s not even the first to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163791","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=163791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}