{"id":97613,"date":"2019-10-19T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blanket-of-light-may-give-better-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2019-10-19T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:22:54","slug":"blanket-of-light-may-give-better-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blanket-of-light-may-give-better-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Blanket of light may give better quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blanket-of-light-may-give-better-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories of natural science, and although its predictions are often counterintuitive, not a single experiment has been conducted to date of which the theory has not been able to give an adequate description.<\/p>\n<p>Along with colleagues at bigQ (Center for Macroscopic Quantum States\u2014a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence), center leader Prof. Ulrik Lund Andersen is working on understanding and utilizing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/macroscopic+quantum+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">macroscopic quantum effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prevailing view among researchers is that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a> is a universally valid theory and therefore also applicable in the macroscopic day-to-day world we normally live in. This also means that it should be possible to observe quantum phenomena on a large scale, and this is precisely what we strive to do in the Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence bigQ,\u201d says Lund Andersen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories of natural science, and although its predictions are often counterintuitive, not a single experiment has been conducted to date of which the theory has not been able to give an adequate description. Along with colleagues at bigQ (Center for Macroscopic Quantum States\u2014a Danish National Research Foundation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97613","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\/97613","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}