{"id":239671,"date":"2026-06-26T06:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/quantum-waves-reveal-one-sided-motion-marking-elusive-critical-states"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:22:01","slug":"quantum-waves-reveal-one-sided-motion-marking-elusive-critical-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/quantum-waves-reveal-one-sided-motion-marking-elusive-critical-states","title":{"rendered":"Quantum waves reveal one-sided motion marking elusive critical states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-waves-reveal-one-sided-motion-marking-elusive-critical-states2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sound waves, light waves and other types of waves, generally spread freely through space and over time. In 1958, physicist Philip W. Anderson first described a phenomenon via which irregularities or other sources of disorder in materials would prevent waves from propagating freely, which is now known as Anderson localization.<\/p>\n<p>In quantum systems, one can observe quantum states that are spread throughout a system (i.e., extended), confined to a small region (i.e., localized) or somewhere between the two (i.e., critical). Critical quantum states have so far proved to be very difficult to identify and study using Anderson\u2019s localization theory.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the International Quantum Academy and Southern University of Science and Technology in China recently set out to further explore critical quantum states in a quantum processor based on superconducting qubits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound waves, light waves and other types of waves, generally spread freely through space and over time. In 1958, physicist Philip W. Anderson first described a phenomenon via which irregularities or other sources of disorder in materials would prevent waves from propagating freely, which is now known as Anderson localization. In quantum systems, one can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239671","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=239671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}