{"id":238320,"date":"2026-06-04T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dont-scare-the-cat-engineers-find-smarter-way-to-measure-quantum-systems"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:30:24","slug":"dont-scare-the-cat-engineers-find-smarter-way-to-measure-quantum-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dont-scare-the-cat-engineers-find-smarter-way-to-measure-quantum-systems","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t scare the cat!\u2019 Engineers find smarter way to measure quantum systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-scare-the-cat-engineers-find-smarter-way-to-measure-quantum-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNSW Sydney engineers have riffed on the famous Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat analogy to demonstrate a more efficient way to eliminate errors in quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you\u2019re trying to find your cat hiding in one of eight identical cardboard boxes, in a dark and noisy room,\u201d says UNSW Scientia Professor Andrea Morello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not allowed to enter the room\u2014opening the door may kill the cat. What is the optimal strategy to find out where it\u2019s hiding? Our team of quantum researchers have found an answer to this problem, and it might be an important milestone on the road to building a quantum computer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNSW Sydney engineers have riffed on the famous Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat analogy to demonstrate a more efficient way to eliminate errors in quantum computing. \u201cImagine you\u2019re trying to find your cat hiding in one of eight identical cardboard boxes, in a dark and noisy room,\u201d says UNSW Scientia Professor Andrea Morello. \u201cYou are not allowed to [\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-238320","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\/238320","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=238320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}