{"id":214548,"date":"2025-05-23T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/photon-manipulation-near-absolute-zero-new-record-for-processing-individual-light-particles"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:13:11","slug":"photon-manipulation-near-absolute-zero-new-record-for-processing-individual-light-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/photon-manipulation-near-absolute-zero-new-record-for-processing-individual-light-particles","title":{"rendered":"Photon manipulation near absolute zero: New record for processing individual light particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photon-manipulation-near-absolute-zero-new-record-for-processing-individual-light-particles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Paderborn University have made a further step forward in the field of quantum research: for the first time ever, they have demonstrated a cryogenic circuit (i.e. one that operates in extremely cold conditions) that allows light quanta\u2014also known as photons\u2014to be controlled more quickly than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, these scientists have discovered a way of using circuits to actively manipulate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light pulses<\/a> made up of individual photons. This milestone could substantially contribute to developing modern technologies in quantum information science, communication and simulation. The results have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-12-5-720\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Optica.<\/p>\n<p>Photons, the smallest units of light, are vital for processing quantum information. This often requires measuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a>\u2019s state in real time and using this information to actively control the luminous flux\u2014a method known as a \u201cfeedforward operation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Paderborn University have made a further step forward in the field of quantum research: for the first time ever, they have demonstrated a cryogenic circuit (i.e. one that operates in extremely cold conditions) that allows light quanta\u2014also known as photons\u2014to be controlled more quickly than ever before. Specifically, these scientists have discovered a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214548","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=214548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}