{"id":218677,"date":"2025-07-25T00:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/metasurfaces-could-be-the-next-quantum-information-processors"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:06:37","slug":"metasurfaces-could-be-the-next-quantum-information-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/metasurfaces-could-be-the-next-quantum-information-processors","title":{"rendered":"Metasurfaces could be the next quantum information processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metasurfaces-could-be-the-next-quantum-information-processors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons\u2014fundamental particles of light\u2014hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Photons are typically controlled and coaxed into quantum states via waveguides on extended microchips, or through bulky devices built from lenses, mirrors, and beam splitters. The photons become entangled\u2014enabling them to encode and process quantum information in parallel\u2014through complex networks of these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+components\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical components<\/a>. But such systems are notoriously difficult to scale up due to the large numbers and imperfections of parts required to do any meaningful computation or networking.<\/p>\n<p>Could all those optical components be collapsed into a single, flat, ultra-thin array of subwavelength elements that control light in the exact same way, but with far fewer fabricated parts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons\u2014fundamental particles of light\u2014hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Photons are typically controlled and coaxed into quantum states via waveguides on extended microchips, or through bulky devices built from lenses, mirrors, and beam splitters. The photons become entangled\u2014enabling them to encode [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218677","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\/218677","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}