{"id":214077,"date":"2025-05-15T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-study-provides-insights-into-cleaning-up-noise-in-quantum-entanglement"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:19:16","slug":"a-new-study-provides-insights-into-cleaning-up-noise-in-quantum-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-study-provides-insights-into-cleaning-up-noise-in-quantum-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"A new study provides insights into cleaning up noise in quantum entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-study-provides-insights-into-cleaning-up-noise-in-quantum-entanglement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum entanglement\u2014a connection between particles that produces correlations beyond what is classically possible\u2014will be the backbone of future quantum technologies, including secure communication, cloud quantum computing, and distributed sensing. But entanglement is fragile; noise from the environment degrades entangled states over time, leaving scientists searching for methods to improve the fidelity of noisy entangled states.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Microsoft have shown that it is fundamentally impossible to design a single one-size-fits-all protocol to counteract that noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a>, we often hope for a protocol that works in all scenarios\u2014a kind of cure-all,\u201d said Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong, senior author of the new work <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.190803\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>. \u201cThis result shows that when it comes to purifying entanglement, that\u2019s simply too good to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum entanglement\u2014a connection between particles that produces correlations beyond what is classically possible\u2014will be the backbone of future quantum technologies, including secure communication, cloud quantum computing, and distributed sensing. But entanglement is fragile; noise from the environment degrades entangled states over time, leaving scientists searching for methods to improve the fidelity of noisy entangled states. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214077","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=214077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}