{"id":111206,"date":"2020-08-12T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat"},"modified":"2020-08-12T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:24:21","slug":"quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat","title":{"rendered":"Quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat\u2014a new device that combines the Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quantum computation.<\/p>\n<p>It is Yale\u2019s latest breakthrough in the effort to master and manipulate the physics necessary for a useful quantum computer: Correcting the stream of errors that crop up among fragile bits of quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information<\/a>, called qubits, while performing a task.<\/p>\n<p>A new study reporting on the discovery appears in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. The senior author is Michel Devoret, Yale\u2019s F.W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. The study\u2019s co-first authors are Alexander Grimm, a former postdoctoral associate in Devoret\u2019s lab who is now a tenure-track scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and Nicholas Frattini, a graduate student in Devoret\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat\u2014a new device that combines the Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quantum computation. It is Yale\u2019s latest breakthrough in the effort to master and manipulate the physics necessary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111206","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\/111206","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=111206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}