{"id":245049,"date":"2026-10-07T21:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/levitating-glass-sphere-becomes-entangled-with-light-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:46:42","slug":"levitating-glass-sphere-becomes-entangled-with-light-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/levitating-glass-sphere-becomes-entangled-with-light-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Levitating glass sphere becomes entangled with light at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/levitating-glass-sphere-becomes-entangled-with-light-at-room-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, many physicists are actively exploring how light could be used to link objects through quantum entanglement. By fully harnessing the effect, they hope to unlock a wide array of applications, from secure communication networks spanning vast distances to sensitive new tests of the fundamental laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Through new research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeh1375\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, a team led by Francesco Marin at the University of Florence has taken an important step toward this goal by entangling the motion of a tiny levitating glass sphere with light, without needing to cool their experiment to ultralow temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, many physicists are actively exploring how light could be used to link objects through quantum entanglement. By fully harnessing the effect, they hope to unlock a wide array of applications, from secure communication networks spanning vast distances to sensitive new tests of the fundamental laws of physics. Through new research published in Science, a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245049","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=245049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}