{"id":19123,"date":"2015-11-06T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/researchers-take-two-big-steps-toward-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:59","slug":"researchers-take-two-big-steps-toward-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/researchers-take-two-big-steps-toward-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Researchers take two big steps toward quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-take-two-big-steps-toward-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Phys.org)\u2014\u201d Spooky action at a distance,\u201d Einstein\u2019s famous, dismissive characterization of quantum entanglement, has long been established as a physical phenomenon, and researchers are keen to develop practical applications for entanglement including communication, encryption, and computing.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which the production or the interactions of a number of particles cannot be described independently of each other, and must instead be described in terms of the whole system\u2019s quantum state.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent experiments with entanglement have been reported in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, one proving that <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/complex+quantum+states\/\" rel=\"tag\">complex quantum states<\/a> in photons can be preserved even in turbulent atmospheric conditions; the other demonstrating entanglement swapping between qubits over the 143 kilometers between the Canary Islands and Tenerife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-big-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014\u201d Spooky action at a distance,\u201d Einstein\u2019s famous, dismissive characterization of quantum entanglement, has long been established as a physical phenomenon, and researchers are keen to develop practical applications for entanglement including communication, encryption, and computing. Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which the production or the interactions of a number of particles cannot be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions\/69234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}