{"id":180637,"date":"2024-01-16T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/physicists-announce-a-breakthrough-in-quantum-coherence-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:27:22","slug":"physicists-announce-a-breakthrough-in-quantum-coherence-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/physicists-announce-a-breakthrough-in-quantum-coherence-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Announce a Breakthrough in Quantum Coherence at Room Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-announce-a-breakthrough-in-quantum-coherence-at-room-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heat is the enemy of quantum uncertainty. By arranging light-absorbing molecules in an ordered fashion, physicists in Japan have maintained the critical, yet-to-be-determined state of electron spins for 100 nanoseconds near room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation could have a profound impact on progress in developing quantum technology that doesn\u2019t rely on the bulky and expensive cooling equipment currently needed to keep particles in a so-called \u2018coherent\u2019 form.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the way we describe objects in our day-to-day living, which have qualities like color, position, speed, and rotation, quantum descriptions of objects involve something less settled. Until their characteristics are locked in place with a quick look, we have to treat objects as if they are smeared over a wide space, spinning in different directions, yet to adopt a simple measurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat is the enemy of quantum uncertainty. By arranging light-absorbing molecules in an ordered fashion, physicists in Japan have maintained the critical, yet-to-be-determined state of electron spins for 100 nanoseconds near room temperature. The innovation could have a profound impact on progress in developing quantum technology that doesn\u2019t rely on the bulky and expensive cooling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180637","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=180637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}