{"id":32023,"date":"2016-11-17T21:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T05:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/tracking-the-flow-of-quantum-information"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:13:10","slug":"tracking-the-flow-of-quantum-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/tracking-the-flow-of-quantum-information","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the flow of quantum information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracking-the-flow-of-quantum-information.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If objects in motion are like rainwater flowing through a gutter and landing in a puddle, then quantum objects in motion are like rainwater that might end up in a bunch of puddles, all at once. Figuring out where quantum objects actually go has frustrated scientists for years.<\/p>\n<p>Now a Yale-led group of researchers has derived a formula for understanding where quantum objects land when they are transmitted. It\u2019s a development that offers insight for controlling open quantum systems in a variety of situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe formula we derive turns out to be very useful in operating a quantum computer,\u201d said Victor Albert, first author of a study published in the journal <em>Physical Review X<\/em>. \u201cOur result says that, in principle, we can engineer \u2018rain gutters\u2019 and \u2018gates\u2019 in a system to manipulate quantum objects, either after they land or during their actual flow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/11\/161117144938.htm#.WC6QHpR_9uU.facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/11\/161117144938.h...U.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If objects in motion are like rainwater flowing through a gutter and landing in a puddle, then quantum objects in motion are like rainwater that might end up in a bunch of puddles, all at once. Figuring out where quantum objects actually go has frustrated scientists for years. Now a Yale-led group of researchers has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32023","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\/32023","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=32023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59731,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}