{"id":169310,"date":"2023-08-08T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-observe-first-evidence-of-quantum-superchemistry-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2023-08-08T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T03:22:20","slug":"scientists-observe-first-evidence-of-quantum-superchemistry-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-observe-first-evidence-of-quantum-superchemistry-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Observe First Evidence of \u2018Quantum Superchemistry\u2019 in The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-observe-first-evidence-of-quantum-superchemistry-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weird things happen on the quantum level. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-conduct-the-most-massive-test-ever-of-the-einstein-podolsky-rosen-paradox\">Whole clouds of particles<\/a> can become entangled, their individuality lost as they act as one.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists have observed, for the first time, ultracold atoms cooled to a quantum state chemically reacting as a collective, rather than haphazardly forming new molecules after bumping into each other by chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw lined up with the theoretical predictions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/uchicago-scientists-observe-first-evidence-quantum-superchemistry-laboratory\">says<\/a> Cheng Chin, a physicist at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study. \u201cThis has been a scientific goal for 20 years, so it\u2019s a very exciting era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird things happen on the quantum level. Whole clouds of particles can become entangled, their individuality lost as they act as one. Now scientists have observed, for the first time, ultracold atoms cooled to a quantum state chemically reacting as a collective, rather than haphazardly forming new molecules after bumping into each other by chance. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169310","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=169310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}