{"id":104736,"date":"2020-04-04T05:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/quantum-computing-at-the-nanoscale"},"modified":"2020-04-04T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:03:45","slug":"quantum-computing-at-the-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/quantum-computing-at-the-nanoscale","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing at the nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-at-the-nanoscale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been said that quantum computing will be like going from candlelight to electric light in the way it will transform how we live. Quite a picture, but what exactly is quantum computing?<\/p>\n<p>For the answer to that question, we\u2019ll have to visit a scale of existence so small that the usual rules of physics are warped, stretched and broken, and there are few layperson terms to lean on. Strap yourself in.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we have a world-leading researcher in quantum computing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/science\/about\/our-people\/academic-staff\/david-reilly.html\">Professor David Reilly<\/a>, to guide us. \u201cMost modern technologies are largely based on electromagnetism and Newtonian mechanics,\u201d says Reilly in a meeting room at the University\u2019s Nano Hub. \u201cQuantum computing taps into an enormous new area of nano physics that we haven\u2019t harnessed yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been said that quantum computing will be like going from candlelight to electric light in the way it will transform how we live. Quite a picture, but what exactly is quantum computing? For the answer to that question, we\u2019ll have to visit a scale of existence so small that the usual rules of physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}