{"id":244770,"date":"2026-10-01T21:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/physicists-quantum-entangled-a-levitating-speck-of-glass-with-light-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:03:04","slug":"physicists-quantum-entangled-a-levitating-speck-of-glass-with-light-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/physicists-quantum-entangled-a-levitating-speck-of-glass-with-light-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqmIVeheTVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new window into the quantum realm has just been opened by a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in a beam of light.<\/p>\n<p>In what may be the world\u2019s tiniest disco, physicists intertwined the grain\u2019s properties with those of light so tightly that one could not be described without including the other.<\/p>\n<p>This is quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">entanglement<\/a> \u2013 and this experiment marks the first demonstration of persistent entanglement between the motion of a levitated object and light that travels away from it, all without cryogenically cooling the apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new window into the quantum realm has just been opened by a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in a beam of light. In what may be the world\u2019s tiniest disco, physicists intertwined the grain\u2019s properties with those of light so tightly that one could not be described without including the other. This is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244770","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}