{"id":212180,"date":"2025-04-23T05:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-leap-scientists-slash-atom-superposition-time-by-10000x"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:13:15","slug":"quantum-leap-scientists-slash-atom-superposition-time-by-10000x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-leap-scientists-slash-atom-superposition-time-by-10000x","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Leap: Scientists Slash Atom Superposition Time by 10,000x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-scientists-slash-atom-superposition-time-by-10000x.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working with the Quantum Statistical Physics (PQS) group, Dengis developed a protocol for rapidly generating NOON states. \u201cThese states, which look like miniature versions of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s famous cat, are quantum superpositions,\u201d he explains. \u201cThey are of major interest for technologies such as ultra-precise quantum sensors or quantum computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The obstacle of time<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The main challenge? Manufacturing these states normally takes far too long. We\u2019re talking tens of minutes or more, which often exceeds the lifetime of the experiment. The cause? An energy bottleneck, a \u201csharp bend\u201d in the system\u2019s evolution that forces it to slow down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with the Quantum Statistical Physics (PQS) group, Dengis developed a protocol for rapidly generating NOON states. \u201cThese states, which look like miniature versions of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s famous cat, are quantum superpositions,\u201d he explains. \u201cThey are of major interest for technologies such as ultra-precise quantum sensors or quantum computers.\u201d The obstacle of time The main challenge? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212180","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\/212180","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=212180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}