{"id":28578,"date":"2016-08-02T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/virtual-light-particles-may-boost-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:28:25","slug":"virtual-light-particles-may-boost-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/virtual-light-particles-may-boost-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Light Particles May Boost Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-light-particles-may-boost-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single photon can excite two or more atoms at the same time, scientists found. And the light particle would do so in a very counterintuitive way, by summoning one or more companion photons out of nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>If you think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/50678-visible-light.html\">particles of light<\/a>, or photons, as billiard balls, it makes intuitive sense that a single photon can excite a single atom.<\/p>\n<p>The new, less intuitive finding depends on the strange nature of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/33816-quantum-mechanics-explanation.html\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, and might help improve advanced machines known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55196-quantum-computers-simulate-beginning-of-universe.html\">quantum computers<\/a>, researchers said. Prior work suggested that such machines could simultaneously perform more calculations in one instant than there are atoms in the universe. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/16214-implications-faster-light-neutrinos.html\">Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-than-Light Travel<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55617-virtual-photons-may-boost-quantum-computing.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55617-virtual-photons-may-boost-q...uting.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single photon can excite two or more atoms at the same time, scientists found. And the light particle would do so in a very counterintuitive way, by summoning one or more companion photons out of nothingness. If you think of particles of light, or photons, as billiard balls, it makes intuitive sense that a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66701,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions\/66701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}