{"id":178248,"date":"2023-12-14T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/huge-first-physicists-entangle-individual-molecules-with-staggering-precision"},"modified":"2023-12-14T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:24:08","slug":"huge-first-physicists-entangle-individual-molecules-with-staggering-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/huge-first-physicists-entangle-individual-molecules-with-staggering-precision","title":{"rendered":"Huge First: Physicists \u2018Entangle\u2019 Individual Molecules With Staggering Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huge-first-physicists-entangle-individual-molecules-with-staggering-precision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bulky and hard to wrangle, molecules have long defied physicists\u2019 attempts to lure them into a state of controlled quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">entanglement<\/a>, whereby the molecules are intimately linked even at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, two separate teams have succeeded in entangling pairs of ultra-cold molecules using the same method: microscopically precise optical \u2018tweezer traps\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\">Quantum entanglement<\/a> is a bizarre yet fundamental phenomenon of the quantum realm that physicists are trying to tap into to create the first, commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulky and hard to wrangle, molecules have long defied physicists\u2019 attempts to lure them into a state of controlled quantum entanglement, whereby the molecules are intimately linked even at a distance. Now, for the first time, two separate teams have succeeded in entangling pairs of ultra-cold molecules using the same method: microscopically precise optical \u2018tweezer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178248","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}