{"id":205652,"date":"2025-02-05T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-quantum-gate"},"modified":"2025-02-05T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:09:05","slug":"researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-quantum-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-quantum-gate","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop first-of-its-kind quantum gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-quantum-gate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study led by quantum researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved popular among the science community interested in building a more reliable quantum network.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by ORNL\u2019s Hsuan-Hao Lu, details development of a novel quantum gate that operates between two photonic degrees of freedom\u2014polarization and frequency. (Photonic degrees of freedom describe different properties of a photon that can be controlled and used to store or transmit information.) When combined with hyperentanglement, this new approach could enhance error resilience in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+communication\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum communication<\/a>, helping to pave the way for future quantum networks.<\/p>\n<p>Their work was <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=opticaq-2-4-282\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Optica Quantum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study led by quantum researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved popular among the science community interested in building a more reliable quantum network. The study, led by ORNL\u2019s Hsuan-Hao Lu, details development of a novel quantum gate that operates between two photonic degrees of freedom\u2014polarization and frequency. (Photonic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205652","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=205652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}