{"id":105757,"date":"2020-04-19T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/quantum-computing-milestone-researchers-compute-with-hot-silicon-qubits"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:23:57","slug":"quantum-computing-milestone-researchers-compute-with-hot-silicon-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/quantum-computing-milestone-researchers-compute-with-hot-silicon-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Milestone: Researchers Compute With \u2018Hot\u2019 Silicon Qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UhYBANLcwqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two research groups say they\u2019ve independently built quantum devices that can operate at temperatures above 1 Kelvin\u201415 times hotter than rival technologies can withstand.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to work at higher temperatures is key to scaling up to the many qubits thought to be required for future commercial-grade quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.unsw.edu.au\/electrical-engineering\/scientia-professor-andrew-dzurak\">Andrew Dzurak<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.unsw.edu.au\/people\/dr-henry-yang\">Henry Yang<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unsw.edu.au\/\">University of New South Wales<\/a> in Australia performed a single-qubit operation on a quantum processor at 1.5 Kelvin. Separately, a team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/qutech.nl\/person\/menno-veldhorst\/\">Menno Veldhorst<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudelft.nl\/en\/\">Delft University of Technology<\/a> performed a two-qubit operation at 1.1 Kelvin. <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/computing\/hardware\/intels-new-path-to-quantum-computing\">Jim Clarke<\/a>, director of quantum hardware at Intel, is a co-author on the Delft paper. Both groups published descriptions of their devices today in <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two research groups say they\u2019ve independently built quantum devices that can operate at temperatures above 1 Kelvin\u201415 times hotter than rival technologies can withstand. The ability to work at higher temperatures is key to scaling up to the many qubits thought to be required for future commercial-grade quantum computers. A team led by Andrew Dzurak [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105757","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=105757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}