{"id":180691,"date":"2024-01-17T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-build-mass-producible-miniature-quantum-memory-element"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:31:19","slug":"scientists-build-mass-producible-miniature-quantum-memory-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-build-mass-producible-miniature-quantum-memory-element","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build mass-producible miniature quantum memory element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-mass-producible-miniature-quantum-memory-element2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light pulses can be stored and retrieved in the glass cell, which is filled with rubidium atoms and is only a few millimeters in size.<\/p>\n<p>Light particles are particularly suited to transmitting quantum information.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Basel have built a quantum memory element based on atoms in a tiny glass cell. In the future, such quantum memories could be mass-produced on a wafer.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to imagine our lives without networks such as the internet or mobile phone networks. In the future, similar networks are planned for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum technologies<\/a> that will enable the tap-proof transmission of messages using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+cryptography\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum cryptography<\/a> and make it possible to connect quantum computers to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Like their conventional counterparts, such quantum networks require memory elements in which information can be temporarily stored and routed as needed. A team of researchers at the University of Basel led by Professor Philipp Treutlein has now developed such a memory element, which can be micro-fabricated and is, therefore, suitable for mass production. Their results were <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.131.260801\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light pulses can be stored and retrieved in the glass cell, which is filled with rubidium atoms and is only a few millimeters in size. Light particles are particularly suited to transmitting quantum information. Researchers at the University of Basel have built a quantum memory element based on atoms in a tiny glass cell. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180691","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}