{"id":203756,"date":"2025-01-14T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-engineers-create-a-schrodingers-cat-inside-a-silicon-chip"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:33:07","slug":"quantum-engineers-create-a-schrodingers-cat-inside-a-silicon-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-engineers-create-a-schrodingers-cat-inside-a-silicon-chip","title":{"rendered":"Quantum engineers create a \u2018Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat\u2019 inside a silicon chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-engineers-create-a-schrodingers-cat-inside-a-silicon-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations\u2014and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has puzzled scientists and philosophers for more than a century. One of the most famous quantum thought experiments is that of the \u201cSchr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat\u201d\u2014a cat whose life or death depends on the decay of a radioactive atom.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, unless the atom is directly observed, it must be considered to be in a superposition\u2014that is, being in multiple states at the same time\u2014of decayed and not decayed. This leads to the troubling conclusion that the cat is in a superposition of dead and alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations\u2014and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer. Quantum mechanics has puzzled scientists and philosophers for more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203756","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\/203756","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}