{"id":195660,"date":"2024-09-04T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-quantum-effect-in-textbook-chemistry-law"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:26:03","slug":"new-quantum-effect-in-textbook-chemistry-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-quantum-effect-in-textbook-chemistry-law","title":{"rendered":"New Quantum Effect in Textbook Chemistry Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-effect-in-textbook-chemistry-law2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The observation of quantum modifications to a well-known chemical law could lead to performance improvements for quantum information storage.<\/p>\n<p>The Arrhenius law says that the rate of a chemical reaction should decrease steadily as you increase the energy barrier between initial and final states. Now researchers have found a system that obeys a quantum version of the Arrhenius law, where the rate does not drop smoothly but instead decreases in a staircase pattern [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v17\/128#c1\" class=\"\">1<\/a>]. The system is a type of quantum bit (qubit) that is particularly robust against environmental disturbances. The researchers demonstrated that they can take advantage of this quantum effect to improve the qubit\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Technologies such as quantum computers and quantum cryptography use qubits to store information, and one of the continuing challenges is that uncontrolled environmental effects can change the state of a qubit. The most common solutions require large amounts of hardware, but an alternative method is to use qubits that are more error resistant, such as so-called cat qubits. The information in these qubits is stored in robust combinations of quantum states that resemble the states in Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s famous feline thought experiment (see <a target=\"xrefwindow\" href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v6\/s57\" id=\"d5e116\">Synopsis: Quantum-ness Put on the Scale<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The observation of quantum modifications to a well-known chemical law could lead to performance improvements for quantum information storage. The Arrhenius law says that the rate of a chemical reaction should decrease steadily as you increase the energy barrier between initial and final states. Now researchers have found a system that obeys a quantum version [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1625,1496,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-law","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195660","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=195660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}