{"id":203786,"date":"2025-01-15T04:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/engineering-quantum-entanglement-at-the-nanoscale"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:17:45","slug":"engineering-quantum-entanglement-at-the-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/engineering-quantum-entanglement-at-the-nanoscale","title":{"rendered":"Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-quantum-entanglement-at-the-nanoscale2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out how to take advantage of these phenomena to create new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In one such phenomenon, called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+entanglement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum entanglement<\/a>, pairs of photons become interconnected in such a way that the state of one <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a> instantly changes to match the state of its paired photon, no matter how far apart they are.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 years ago, Albert Einstein referred to this phenomenon as \u201cspooky action at a distance.\u201d Today, entanglement is the subject of research programs across the world\u2014and it\u2019s becoming a favored way to implement the most fundamental form of quantum information, the qubit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out how to take advantage of these phenomena to create new technologies. In one such phenomenon, called quantum entanglement, pairs of photons become [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203786","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=203786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}