{"id":30626,"date":"2016-09-29T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/stopping-light-physicists-move-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:33:13","slug":"stopping-light-physicists-move-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/stopping-light-physicists-move-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Light: Physicists Move Quantum Computers Closer to Reality"},"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\/jW_80CmdV_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm; like the graphic reminds of one of my posts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In Brief.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantum computers would run some 100 million times faster than your PC, but they have proven to be a monumental feat of engineering. <\/li>\n<li>In a new experiment, physicists managed to stop light, which helps us overcome challenges and brings us close to optical quantum computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A team of researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) may have found another work-around to bring us closer to quantum computing: The physicists have managed to find a new way to stop light.<\/p>\n<p>Light was trapped by shining infrared lasers into ultra-cold atomic vapor. While the atoms absorbed some photons, a large amount were left in a frozen state in the atomic cloud \u2014 enhancing photon interaction with atoms or other photons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/stopping-light-physicists-move-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality\">Continue reading \u201cStopping Light: Physicists Move Quantum Computers Closer to Reality\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm; like the graphic reminds of one of my posts. In Brief. Quantum computers would run some 100 million times faster than your PC, but they have proven to be a monumental feat of engineering. In a new experiment, physicists managed to stop light, which helps us overcome challenges and brings us close to optical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626","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=30626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39213,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626\/revisions\/39213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}