{"id":193988,"date":"2024-08-03T20:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-trap-atoms-force-them-to-serve-as-photonic-transistors"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:22:52","slug":"researchers-trap-atoms-force-them-to-serve-as-photonic-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-trap-atoms-force-them-to-serve-as-photonic-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers trap atoms, force them to serve as photonic transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-trap-atoms-force-them-to-serve-as-photonic-transistors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could be the road to quantum computation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIn contrast, solid-state emitters embedded in a photonic circuit are hardly \u2018the same\u2019 due to slightly different surroundings influencing each emitter. It is much harder for many solid-state emitters to build up phase coherence and collectively interact with photons like cold atoms. We could use cold atoms trapped on the circuit to study new collective effects,\u201d Hung continues.<\/p>\n<p>The platform demonstrated in this research could provide a photonic link for future distributed quantum computing based on neutral atoms. It could also serve as a new experimental platform for studying collective light-matter interactions and for synthesizing quantum degenerate trapped gases or ultracold molecules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike electronic transistors used in daily life, our atom-coupled integrated photonic circuit obeys the principles of quantum superposition,\u201d explains Hung. \u201cThis allows us to manipulate and store quantum information in trapped atoms, which are quantum bits known as qubits. Our circuit may also efficiently transfer stored quantum information into photons that could \u2018fly\u2019 through the photonic wire and a fiber network to communicate with other atom-coupled integrated circuits or atom-photon interfaces. Our research demonstrates a potential to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+network\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum network<\/a> based on cold-atom integrated nanophotonic circuits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be the road to quantum computation. \u201cIn contrast, solid-state emitters embedded in a photonic circuit are hardly \u2018the same\u2019 due to slightly different surroundings influencing each emitter. It is much harder for many solid-state emitters to build up phase coherence and collectively interact with photons like cold atoms. We could use cold atoms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193988","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\/193988","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}