{"id":2951,"date":"2008-09-19T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/ambiguous-quantum-cubes\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:16:37","slug":"ambiguous-quantum-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/ambiguous-quantum-cubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguous Quantum Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of quantum (as we were), I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to the recent <cite>Scientific American<\/cite> article by Chris Monroe and Dave Wineland on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=quantum-computing-with-ions\">quantum computing with ions<\/a>. This is a very good explanation of the science involved, but you&#8217;d expect nothing else, given that the authors are two of the very best in the business.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s especially notable about this article is that either they or the graphic design people at <cite>Scientific American<\/cite> came up with a really excellent visual example of quantum indeterminacy and entanglement, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=quantum-computing-ions-basics\">ambiguous cubes<\/a>. It&#8217;s a clever way to illustrate the phenomena involved, and I will be shamelessly stealing it the next time I need to give a lecture about this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of quantum (as we were), I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to the recent Scientific American article by Chris Monroe and Dave Wineland on quantum computing with ions. This is a very good explanation of the science involved, but you&#8217;d expect nothing else, given that the authors are two of the very best in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/ambiguous-quantum-cubes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambiguous Quantum Cubes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}