{"id":32711,"date":"2016-12-15T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/researchers-discovered-elusive-half-quantum-vortices-in-a-superfluid"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:46","slug":"researchers-discovered-elusive-half-quantum-vortices-in-a-superfluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/researchers-discovered-elusive-half-quantum-vortices-in-a-superfluid","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discovered elusive half-quantum vortices in a superfluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discovered-elusive-half-quantum-vortices-in-a-superfluid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice boost for QC and mimics something that should prove interesting for AI and SynBio technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, and P.L. Kapitza Institute in Moscow have discovered half-quantum vortices in superfluid helium. This vortex is a topological defect, exhibited in superfluids and superconductors, which carries a fixed amount of circulating current.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This discovery of half-quantum vortices culminates a long search for these objects originally predicted to exist in superfluid helium in 1976,\u2019 says <strong>Samuli Autti<\/strong>, Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the future, our discovery will provide access to the cores of half-quantum vortices, hosting isolated Majorana modes, exotic solitary particles. Understanding these modes is essential for the progress of quantum information processing, building a quantum computer,\u2019 Autti continues.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/opli.net\/opli_magazine\/eo\/2016\/researchers-discovered-elusive-half-quantum-vortices-in-a-superfluid-dec-news\/\">http:\/\/opli.net\/opli_magazine\/eo\/2016\/researchers-discovered...-dec-news\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice boost for QC and mimics something that should prove interesting for AI and SynBio technology. Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, and P.L. Kapitza Institute in Moscow have discovered half-quantum vortices in superfluid helium. This vortex is a topological defect, exhibited in superfluids and superconductors, which carries a fixed amount of circulating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711","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=32711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65574,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions\/65574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}