{"id":235886,"date":"2026-04-25T02:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-dark-modes-no-longer-block-phonon-control-opening-new-paths-for-scalable-devices"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:23:24","slug":"quantum-dark-modes-no-longer-block-phonon-control-opening-new-paths-for-scalable-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-dark-modes-no-longer-block-phonon-control-opening-new-paths-for-scalable-devices","title":{"rendered":"Quantum \u2018dark modes\u2019 no longer block phonon control, opening new paths for scalable devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-dark-modes-no-longer-block-phonon-control-opening-new-paths-for-scalable-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three RIKEN researchers have demonstrated a way to stop problematic \u201cdark modes\u201d from squelching intriguing effects in quantum systems. This advance could help with the development of more versatile quantum devices that can be used to control the storage and transmission of quantum information. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-63042-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Manipulations that alter the topology of certain quantum systems known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-physicists-photonic-electrically-tuned-topological.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">non-Hermitian systems<\/a> are attracting increasing attention, since they offer novel possibilities for manipulating particles of sound (phonons) and light (photons) as well as other excitations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-reveals-topological-reversal-quantum.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Topological operations<\/a> allow for various weird and fascinating phenomena, such as the buildup of chiral phases and the movement of phonons in one direction,\u201d notes Franco Nori of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three RIKEN researchers have demonstrated a way to stop problematic \u201cdark modes\u201d from squelching intriguing effects in quantum systems. This advance could help with the development of more versatile quantum devices that can be used to control the storage and transmission of quantum information. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications. Manipulations that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235886","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\/235886","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=235886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}