{"id":183861,"date":"2024-02-28T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/photon-detectors-rewrite-the-rules-of-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:24:08","slug":"photon-detectors-rewrite-the-rules-of-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/photon-detectors-rewrite-the-rules-of-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Photon Detectors Rewrite the Rules of Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photon-detectors-rewrite-the-rules-of-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists achieve breakthrough in quantum optics with photon detector-based method, paving the way for improved quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Paderborn University have used a new method to determine the characteristics of optical, i.e. light-based, quantum states. For the first time, they are using certain photon detectors \u2014 devices that can detect individual light particles \u2014 for so-called homodyne detection. The ability to characterize optical quantum states makes the method an essential tool for quantum information processing. Precise knowledge of the characteristics is important for use in quantum computers, for example. The results have now been published in the specialist journal Optica Quantum.<\/p>\n<p>Advancements in Homodyne Detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists achieve breakthrough in quantum optics with photon detector-based method, paving the way for improved quantum computing. Scientists at Paderborn University have used a new method to determine the characteristics of optical, i.e. light-based, quantum states. For the first time, they are using certain photon detectors \u2014 devices that can detect individual light particles \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}