{"id":217034,"date":"2025-07-02T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-translator-on-a-chip-this-device-converts-microwaves-to-light"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:21:13","slug":"quantum-translator-on-a-chip-this-device-converts-microwaves-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-translator-on-a-chip-this-device-converts-microwaves-to-light","title":{"rendered":"Quantum translator on a chip: This device converts microwaves to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8Qav3vIv9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if future quantum computers could talk to each other across cities, countries, even continents without losing their spooky quantum connection. A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has created a device that could help us realize this future.<\/p>\n<p>This device, which is just a tiny chip made of silicon, works like a universal translator, converting signals between two incompatible energies: microwaves and light. This chip can convert up to 95% of a quantum signal in both directions, and with almost zero noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if future quantum computers could talk to each other across cities, countries, even continents without losing their spooky quantum connection. A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has created a device that could help us realize this future. This device, which is just a tiny chip made of silicon, works [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217034","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}