{"id":222984,"date":"2025-10-07T03:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/chip-based-phonon-splitter-brings-hybrid-quantum-networks-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:21:30","slug":"chip-based-phonon-splitter-brings-hybrid-quantum-networks-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/chip-based-phonon-splitter-brings-hybrid-quantum-networks-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Chip-based phonon splitter brings hybrid quantum networks closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chip-based-phonon-splitter-brings-hybrid-quantum-networks-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons\u2014tiny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way for advanced computing and secure quantum communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhonons can serve as on-chip quantum messages that connect very different quantum systems, enabling hybrid networks and new ways to process <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> in a compact, scalable format,\u201d said research team leader Simon Gr\u00f6blacher from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo build practical phononic circuits requires a full set of chip-based components that can generate, guide, split and detect individual quanta of vibrations. While sources and waveguides already exist, a compact splitter was still missing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons\u2014tiny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way for advanced computing and secure quantum communication. \u201cPhonons can serve as on-chip quantum messages that connect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222984","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=222984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}