{"id":244608,"date":"2026-09-29T01:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ultrathin-materials-could-make-quantum-light-circuits-programmable"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:31:21","slug":"ultrathin-materials-could-make-quantum-light-circuits-programmable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ultrathin-materials-could-make-quantum-light-circuits-programmable","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin materials could make quantum light circuits programmable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-materials-could-make-quantum-light-circuits-programmable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum photonics could be a pivotal part of future quantum technology if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found.<\/p>\n<p>Photonics offers an approach to developing quantum technology using light. The authors believe a programmable photonic platform could enable technologies such as quantum neural networks and distributed quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Many photonic components already exist and can be integrated onto <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-kind-chip-quantum-technology.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">a single silicon chip<\/a>. The challenge is to put them together in a way that can be manipulated efficiently. Today\u2019s technology is mostly fixed once manufactured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum photonics could be a pivotal part of future quantum technology if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found. Photonics offers an approach to developing quantum technology using light. The authors believe a programmable photonic platform could enable technologies such as quantum neural networks and distributed quantum computing. Many photonic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244608","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=244608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}