{"id":83326,"date":"2018-10-05T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:18","slug":"researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Created \u2018Quantum Artificial Life\u2019 For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an international team of researchers has used a quantum computer to create artificial life\u2014a simulation of living organisms that scientists can use to understand life at the level of whole populations all the way down to cellular interactions.<\/p>\n<p>With the quantum computer, individual living organisms represented at a microscopic level with superconducting qubits were made to \u201cmate,\u201d interact with their environment, and \u201cdie\u201d to model some of the major factors that influence evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, published in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> on Thursday, is a breakthrough that may eventually help answer the question of whether the origin of life can be explained by quantum mechanics, a theory of physics that describes the universe in terms of the interactions between subatomic particles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbdxav\/researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time\">https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbdxav\/researcher...first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an international team of researchers has used a quantum computer to create artificial life\u2014a simulation of living organisms that scientists can use to understand life at the level of whole populations all the way down to cellular interactions. With the quantum computer, individual living organisms represented at a microscopic level with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83326","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83397,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83326\/revisions\/83397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}