{"id":2738,"date":"2011-02-01T01:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T06:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/02\/01\/nc60-is-quite-a-sexy-interesting-promising-molecule\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T06:47:29","slug":"nc60-is-quite-a-sexy-interesting-promising-molecule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/02\/01\/nc60-is-quite-a-sexy-interesting-promising-molecule\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;N@C60 is quite a sexy, interesting, promising molecule&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBut in terms of holding onto quantum entanglement it&#8217;s beaten hollow by the humble Robin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/01\/quantum-birds\/\">according to <cite>Wired<\/cite><\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/european-robin.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" alt=\"an European Robin from Wikipedia\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEuropean robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to \u201csee\u201d Earth\u2019s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQuantum entanglement is a state where electrons are spatially separated, but able to affect one another. It\u2019s been proposed that birds\u2019 eyes contain entanglement-based compasses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConclusive proof doesn\u2019t yet exist, but multiple lines of evidence suggest it. Findings like this one underscore just how sophisticated those compasses may be.\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nTo put this in perspective, Benjamin introduced an exotic molecule called N@C60, a geometric cage of carbon with a nitrogen atom inside. This molecule is one of the best-known laboratory systems for maintaining entanglement. \u201cThe cage acts to shield the atom, which is storing the information, from the rest of the world,\u201d Benjamin said. \u201cIt\u2019s considered to be quite a sexy, interesting, promising molecule.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut at room temperature, even N@C60 only holds entanglement for 80 microseconds, or four-fifths of what birds appear to be doing.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nVery interesting, but watch out for the <cite>New Scientist<\/cite> effect, where the desire to showcase counterintuitive, sexy research comes into conflict with doing science right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in terms of holding onto quantum entanglement it&#8217;s beaten hollow by the humble Robin, according to Wired: European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to \u201csee\u201d Earth\u2019s magnetic field. Quantum entanglement is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-world","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}