{"id":178577,"date":"2023-12-18T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/quantum-batteries-could-charge-by-breaking-our-understanding-of-time"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:31:14","slug":"quantum-batteries-could-charge-by-breaking-our-understanding-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/quantum-batteries-could-charge-by-breaking-our-understanding-of-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-batteries-could-charge-by-breaking-our-understanding-of-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, <i>causes<\/i> it to smash, so it can\u2019t smash before it\u2019s dropped. But in the quantum world those rules don\u2019t necessarily apply, and scientists have now demonstrated how that weirdness can be harnessed to charge a quantum battery.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, you could say that quantum batteries are powered by paradoxes. On paper, they work by storing energy in the quantum states of atoms and molecules \u2013 but of course, as soon as the word \u201cquantum\u201d enters the conversation you know weird stuff is about to happen. In this case, a new study has found that quantum batteries could work by violating cause-and-effect as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent batteries for low-power devices, such as smartphones or sensors, typically use chemicals such as lithium to store charge, whereas a quantum battery uses microscopic particles like arrays of atoms,\u201d said Yuanbo Chen, an author of the study. \u201cWhile chemical batteries are governed by classical laws of physics, microscopic particles are quantum in nature, so we have a chance to explore ways of using them that bend or even break our intuitive notions of what takes place at small scales. I\u2019m particularly interested in the way quantum particles can work to violate one of our most fundamental experiences, that of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, causes it to smash, so it can\u2019t smash before it\u2019s dropped. But in the quantum world those rules don\u2019t necessarily apply, and scientists have now demonstrated how that weirdness can be harnessed to charge a quantum battery. In a sense, you could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178577","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}