{"id":94883,"date":"2019-08-17T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-have-built-the-most-complex-light-based-quantum-computer-chip-ever"},"modified":"2019-08-17T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T16:22:36","slug":"researchers-have-built-the-most-complex-light-based-quantum-computer-chip-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-have-built-the-most-complex-light-based-quantum-computer-chip-ever","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Have Built The Most Complex Light-Based Quantum Computer Chip Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-built-the-most-complex-light-based-quantum-computer-chip-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world-first, researchers have created a quantum chip that contains four entangled particles of light, known as photons, and is capable of performing actions over hundreds of channels simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Or to put that into context, they\u2019ve come closer than ever before to building a chip that\u2019s similar to the ones in our smartphones and computers, but that has the potential to perform exponentially more calculations, and can process data at the speed of light. Sounds good, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis represents an unprecedented level of sophistication in generating entangled photons on a chip,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinburne.edu.au\/news\/latest-news\/2016\/03\/record-setting-leap-towards-ultra-secure-communication.php\">said co-lead researcher David Moss<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinburne.edu.au\/news\/\">Swinburne University of Technology<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world-first, researchers have created a quantum chip that contains four entangled particles of light, known as photons, and is capable of performing actions over hundreds of channels simultaneously. Or to put that into context, they\u2019ve come closer than ever before to building a chip that\u2019s similar to the ones in our smartphones and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883","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=94883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}