{"id":246192,"date":"2026-10-30T03:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/theoretical-method-uses-light-to-locate-anyons-potential-quantum-computing-building-blocks"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:54:40","slug":"theoretical-method-uses-light-to-locate-anyons-potential-quantum-computing-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/theoretical-method-uses-light-to-locate-anyons-potential-quantum-computing-building-blocks","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical method uses light to locate anyons, potential quantum computing building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the \u201cspectral fingerprints\u201d of anyons\u2014exotic quasiparticles that emerge from the collective behavior of many electrons. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/8bp8-g8g4\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> are published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>. The work offers a new tool for the study of anyons, which hold potential as fundamental building blocks for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing a particular frequency of light, we\u2019ve developed a sensor that can pinpoint the location of an anyon in a material,\u201d says Luiz Santos, professor of physics at Emory University and senior author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dream goal is the ability to manipulate anyons to achieve topological quantum computation,\u201d says Tianhong Lu, first author of the paper and an Emory Ph.D. candidate in physics. \u201cOur theoretical work takes another step in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the \u201cspectral fingerprints\u201d of anyons\u2014exotic quasiparticles that emerge from the collective behavior of many electrons. Their findings are published in Physical Review Letters. The work offers a new tool for the study of anyons, which hold potential as fundamental building blocks [\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-246192","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\/246192","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=246192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}