{"id":172278,"date":"2023-09-18T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-record-length-for-quantum-coherence"},"modified":"2023-09-18T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:23:04","slug":"new-record-length-for-quantum-coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-record-length-for-quantum-coherence","title":{"rendered":"New record length for quantum coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-record-length-for-quantum-coherence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new record time for quantum coherence is reported, with a single-photon qubit encoded for 34 milliseconds. This is 55% longer than the previous record set in 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In classical computing \u2013 such as the PC, smartphone, or other device you are currently using \u2013 information is processed with bits, which exist in a binary state of either a 0 or a 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=140\" target=\"_blank\">Quantum computing<\/a>, by contrast, involves the processing of information with quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in a \u201csuperposition\u201d of both 0 and 1 simultaneously. This allows quantum computers to do certain types of calculations much faster than classical computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new record time for quantum coherence is reported, with a single-photon qubit encoded for 34 milliseconds. This is 55% longer than the previous record set in 2020. In classical computing \u2013 such as the PC, smartphone, or other device you are currently using \u2013 information is processed with bits, which exist in a binary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172278","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\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}