{"id":195046,"date":"2024-08-23T05:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quantum-information-theorists-are-shedding-light-on-entanglement-one-of-the-spooky-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2024-08-23T05:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:41:23","slug":"quantum-information-theorists-are-shedding-light-on-entanglement-one-of-the-spooky-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quantum-information-theorists-are-shedding-light-on-entanglement-one-of-the-spooky-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Quantum information theorists are shedding light on entanglement, one of the spooky mysteries of quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-information-theorists-are-shedding-light-on-entanglement-one-of-the-spooky-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But despite creating all these breakthrough technologies, physicists and philosophers who study quantum mechanics still haven\u2019t come up with the answers to some big questions raised by the field\u2019s founders. Given recent developments in quantum information science, <a href=\"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/stuckeym\/\">researchers like me<\/a> are using quantum information theory to explore new ways of thinking about these unanswered foundational questions. And one direction we\u2019re looking into relates Albert Einstein\u2019s relativity principle to the qubit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quantum computers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Quantum information science focuses on building quantum computers based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/qubit\">quantum \u201cbit\u201d of information, or qubit<\/a>. The qubit is historically grounded in the discoveries of physicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/Plancks-radiation-law\">Max Planck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Albert-Einstein\">Einstein<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/quantum-mechanics-physics\/Einstein-and-the-photoelectric-effect\">instigated the development<\/a> of quantum mechanics in 1900 and 1905, respectively, when they discovered that light exists in discrete, or \u201cquantum,\u201d bundles of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But despite creating all these breakthrough technologies, physicists and philosophers who study quantum mechanics still haven\u2019t come up with the answers to some big questions raised by the field\u2019s founders. Given recent developments in quantum information science, researchers like me are using quantum information theory to explore new ways of thinking about these unanswered foundational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046","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=195046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}