{"id":4765,"date":"2016-04-13T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:50:15","slug":"solving-quantum-physics-problems-with-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/solving-quantum-physics-problems-with-computer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving quantum physics problems with computer games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4766\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fig2-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-image-4766\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fig2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The in-game view of Quantum Moves with an optical tweezer (the vertical blue line), and a single trapped atom denoted by the purple liquid above the blue line. The blue circle indicates where the players should touch the screen.  A movie showing the Quantum Moves game studied by the researchers is available to watch. (Image credit: ScienceAtHome)\" width=\"467\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The in-game view of Quantum Moves with an optical tweezer (the vertical blue line), and a single trapped atom denoted by the purple liquid above the blue line. The blue circle indicates where the players should touch the screen. A movie showing the Quantum Moves game studied by the researchers is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3U-hzGgUsHY\">available to watch<\/a><\/span>. (Image credit: ScienceAtHome)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Computer gamers can teach quantum physicists a thing or two! At least according to \u00a0the results of a study using an online game platform called Quantum Moves, which presents problems in quantum physics as games. So far the games have been played 500,000 times by about 10,000 different players. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research confirmed that using the game, participants were able to solve difficult quantum problems and out performed computer strategies according to an <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/Maniscalco-NV-Sherson.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accompanying News &amp; Views article<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17620\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>April 13<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob Sherson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer gamers can teach quantum physicists a thing or two! At least according to \u00a0the results of a study using an online game platform called Quantum Moves, which presents problems in quantum physics as games. So far the games have been played 500,000 times by about 10,000 different players. The research confirmed that using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2374,2527,347,2528,1011],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-computers","tag-games","tag-physics","tag-quantum-physics","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}