{"id":21110,"date":"2016-01-23T02:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T10:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/researchers-have-achieved-the-next-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:51","slug":"researchers-have-achieved-the-next-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/researchers-have-achieved-the-next-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have achieved the next breakthrough in quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-achieved-the-next-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists has managed to create a quantum knot <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/physicists-successfully-tie-the-very-first-quantum-knot-1753018637\" rel=\"nofollow\">for the first time<\/a> \u2014 a fundamental breakthrough in quantum physics that could one day help power the supercomputers of the future.<\/p>\n<p>These knots aren\u2019t quite the same as the ones you might tie to moor a boat to a jetty \u2014 they\u2019ve been made in a superfluid form of quantum matter called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bose-Einstein Condensate<\/a>, or BEC, and are more like smoke rings than traditional knots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, physicists have been theoretically predicting that it should be possible to have knots in quantum fields, but nobody else has been able to make one,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/current\/news\/2016-01-14-005\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">said lead researcher, Mikko M\u00f6tt\u00f6nen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/physicists-have-managed-to-tie-a-quantum-knot-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists has managed to create a quantum knot for the first time \u2014 a fundamental breakthrough in quantum physics that could one day help power the supercomputers of the future. These knots aren\u2019t quite the same as the ones you might tie to moor a boat to a jetty \u2014 they\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68748,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions\/68748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}