{"id":246256,"date":"2026-10-31T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-skyrmions-outlast-entanglement-hinting-at-more-resilient-networks"},"modified":"2026-10-31T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:30:19","slug":"quantum-skyrmions-outlast-entanglement-hinting-at-more-resilient-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-skyrmions-outlast-entanglement-hinting-at-more-resilient-networks","title":{"rendered":"Quantum skyrmions outlast entanglement, hinting at more resilient networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quantum networks could one day connect quantum computers into more powerful systems and enable new forms of secure communication. But a fundamental obstacle stands in the way: Quantum information is extraordinarily fragile, and the entanglement between particles of light on which such networks would depend is easily disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03487-x\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a potential workaround using topology, the branch of mathematics that famously considers a doughnut and a coffee mug equivalent because they both have a single hole that remains unchanged even when their shapes are distorted.<\/p>\n<p>To explore whether topology\u2019s focus on properties that persist under deformation could lend resilience to quantum systems, the researchers built a chip that generates a pair of entangled photons, then gives one of them a distinctive pattern, known as a skyrmion, by polarizing its light in a particular way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum networks could one day connect quantum computers into more powerful systems and enable new forms of secure communication. But a fundamental obstacle stands in the way: Quantum information is extraordinarily fragile, and the entanglement between particles of light on which such networks would depend is easily disrupted. Now, in a new paper in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246256","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=246256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}