{"id":32879,"date":"2016-12-22T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/electron-photon-small-talk-could-have-big-impact-on-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:10:24","slug":"electron-photon-small-talk-could-have-big-impact-on-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/electron-photon-small-talk-could-have-big-impact-on-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Electron-photon small-talk could have big impact on quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-photon-small-talk-could-have-big-impact-on-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a step that brings silicon-based quantum computers closer to reality, researchers at Princeton University have built a device in which a single electron can pass its quantum information to a particle of light. The particle of light, or photon, can then act as a messenger to carry the information to other electrons, creating connections that form the circuits of a quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal <i>Science<\/i> and conducted at Princeton and HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, represents a more than five-year effort to build a robust capability for an electron to talk to a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a>, said Jason Petta, a Princeton professor of physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like in human interactions, to have good communication a number of things need to work out\u2014it helps to speak the same language and so forth,\u201d Petta said. \u201cWe are able to bring the energy of the electronic state into resonance with the light particle, so that the two can talk to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-12-electron-photon-small-talk-big-impact-quantum.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;12-electron-photon-small-talk-...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a step that brings silicon-based quantum computers closer to reality, researchers at Princeton University have built a device in which a single electron can pass its quantum information to a particle of light. The particle of light, or photon, can then act as a messenger to carry the information to other electrons, creating connections [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1878,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-employment","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32879","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=32879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49434,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32879\/revisions\/49434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}