{"id":108057,"date":"2020-06-02T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/artificial-atoms-create-stable-qubits-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:07:39","slug":"artificial-atoms-create-stable-qubits-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/artificial-atoms-create-stable-qubits-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Atoms Create Stable Qubits for Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-atoms-create-stable-qubits-for-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum engineers from <a href=\"https:\/\/thequantumdaily.com\/2019\/12\/17\/silex-systems-teams-up-with-unsw-on-silicon-enrichment-project-for-quantum-computing\/\">UNSW Sydney<\/a> have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.unsw.edu.au\/news\/science-tech\/artificial-atoms-create-stable-qubits-quantum-computing\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published today in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, UNSW <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\">quantum computing<\/a> researchers describe how they created artificial atoms in a silicon \u2018quantum dot\u2019, a tiny space in a quantum circuit where electrons are used as qubits (or quantum bits), the basic units of quantum information.<\/p>\n<p>Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak explains that unlike a real atom, an artificial atom has no nucleus, but it still has shells of electrons whizzing around the centre of the device, rather than around the atom\u2019s nucleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing, according to a news release. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, UNSW quantum computing researchers describe how they created artificial atoms in a silicon \u2018quantum dot\u2019, a tiny space in a quantum circuit where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108057","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}