{"id":3927160,"date":"2026-07-24T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/long-lived-ytterbium-states-could-sharpen-quantum-computing-and-atomic-clocks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:00:12","slug":"long-lived-ytterbium-states-could-sharpen-quantum-computing-and-atomic-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/long-lived-ytterbium-states-could-sharpen-quantum-computing-and-atomic-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-lived ytterbium states could sharpen quantum computing and atomic clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the University of New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived, nearly stable states and, if so, for how long. The measured long-lived states may find applications in quantum computers and atomic clocks.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ytterbium-states-sharpen-quantum-atomic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the University of New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived, nearly stable states and, if so, for how long. The measured long-lived states may find applications in quantum computers and atomic clocks. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}