{"id":148759,"date":"2025-08-25T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//?p=148759"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:47:08","slug":"ucf-researchers-advance-understanding-of-quantum-light-and-turn-loss-into-robustness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//ucf-researchers-advance-understanding-of-quantum-light-and-turn-loss-into-robustness/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researchers Advance Understanding of Quantum Light and Turn Loss into Robustness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The building blocks of the future can be hard to see /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u2014 unless you know where to look./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

While many researchers at SpaceU scour the stars in search of our universe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u2019s secrets, others are focusing their attention on the opposite direction: the tiny, strange and exciting world of quantum mechanics. Understanding how things behave in that environment /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u2014 especially light /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u2014 could be the key to future technological breakthroughs./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

Andrea Blanco-Redondo is the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Endowed Professor of Optics and Photonics at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. She heads the Quantum Silicon Photonics (QSP) research group, which aims to better understand the fundamental properties of light. Their research will be necessary to one day make our quantum technological aspirations a reality. Quantum computing, for example, leverages principles in which photons can be in multiple places and states simultaneously to achieve vastly enhanced processing power./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u201cUnderstanding these things better is going to lead to real advances in quantum computing, quantum sensing and quantum information science in general,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u201d Blanco-Redondo says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

However, fully understanding the world of the small is no small task. Fraught with unpredictability and disorder, the tiniest imperfections and errors of nanofabrication can hinder the scalability of quantum systems to the levels researchers hope to achieve./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u201cQuantum states are very, very fragile, with respect to any kind of perturbation from the environment, so you need to somehow provide protections for the states,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u201d study co-author and CREOL doctoral student Amin Hashemi Shahraki /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u201924MS says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n

That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/u2019s where the QSP group comes in. Their recent work published in Nature Materials demonstrated the use of a platform to precisely control the dissipation, or loss, of quantum states of light, which in turn leads to robust topological properties./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/148759/n