{"id":199,"date":"2008-06-20T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-04-05T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:19:35","slug":"spin-control-reading-the-quantum-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Spin control: reading the quantum bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/20080620_quantumcomputing\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Quantum computing artwork\" src=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/files\/imagecache\/story_main_image\/\/files\/images\/quantumart.jpg\" alt=\"Quantum computing artwork\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy Arizona State University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some days, I feel like I\u2019m living in the future. Then I remember that I don\u2019t have a flying car, a hyperintelligent monkey sidekick or a quantum computer. Granted, I\u2019ve always suspected a flying car would be a terrible idea (and the less said about the monkey, the better), but I still want my iQuantum. So, what\u2019s the hold up?<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is one of those ideas that has enormous potential but is so cutting-edge that even its most basic aspects, like storing and reading data, require a large assortment of people with advanced degrees. Recently, two researchers worked out a way to read quantum states using entanglement, the \u201cspooky action at a distance\u201d that links two quantum particles under certain conditions. The method, which they hit upon while exploring electron-electron interactions, could solve the problem of reading quantum bits (aka \u201cqubits\u201d) once and for all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/20080620_quantumcomputing\" target=\"_blank\">ASU researchers untangle quantum quirk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, I feel like I\u2019m living in the future. Then I remember that I don\u2019t have a flying car, a hyperintelligent monkey sidekick or a quantum computer. Granted, I\u2019ve always suspected a flying car would be a terrible idea (and the less said about the monkey, the better), but I still want my iQuantum. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spin control: reading the quantum bit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,12,54,46,73,74,3,13],"tags":[78,77],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-gadgets","category-materials","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-entanglement","tag-quantum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}