{"id":111822,"date":"2020-08-23T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/electronic-cooling-technology-could-be-a-quantum-computing-game-changer"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:02:55","slug":"electronic-cooling-technology-could-be-a-quantum-computing-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/electronic-cooling-technology-could-be-a-quantum-computing-game-changer","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Cooling Technology Could Be a Quantum Computing Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-cooling-technology-could-be-a-quantum-computing-game-changer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Controlling temperature is crucial for the functioning of electronic devices. It\u2019s even more so for highly complex quantum computers that rely on the ability to control quantum bits (also called qubits) in order to achieve processing capabilities far above the most powerful classical computer.<\/p>\n<p>For a quantum computer to maintain its prowess, it must be cooled to a temperature close to absolute zero (&minus;273.15<sup>o<\/sup>C) to keep the qubits in a state of coherence. However, keeping a quantum computer\u2019s core temperature near absolute zero is not a simple feat and poses a major roadblock to the advancement of quantum computing. Often quantum computer producers keep the machines cool by using liquid helium as a refrigerant delivered in multiple stages. Nonetheless, this system is cumbersome and elaborate, and is not user-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controlling temperature is crucial for the functioning of electronic devices. It\u2019s even more so for highly complex quantum computers that rely on the ability to control quantum bits (also called qubits) in order to achieve processing capabilities far above the most powerful classical computer. For a quantum computer to maintain its prowess, it must be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111822","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\/111822","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}