{"id":116094,"date":"2020-11-20T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cracking-the-secrets-of-an-emerging-branch-of-physics"},"modified":"2020-11-20T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:24:39","slug":"cracking-the-secrets-of-an-emerging-branch-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cracking-the-secrets-of-an-emerging-branch-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the secrets of an emerging branch of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cracking-the-secrets-of-an-emerging-branch-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This discovery opens the door to topological quantum computing. Current quantum computing systems, where the elemental units of calculation are qubits that perform superfast calculations, require superconducting materials that only function in extremely cold conditions. Fluctuations in heat can throw one of these systems out of whack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe properties inherent to materials such as TaP could form the basis of future qubits,\u201d says Nguyen. He envisions synthesizing TaP and other topological semimetals \u2014 a process involving the delicate cultivation of these crystalline structures \u2014 and then characterizing their structural and excitational properties with the help of neutron and X-ray beam technology, which probe these materials at the atomic level. This would enable him to identify and deploy the right materials for specific applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to create programmable artificial structured topological materials, which can directly be applied as a quantum computer,\u201d says Nguyen. \u201cWith infinitely better heat management, these quantum computing systems and devices could prove to be incredibly energy efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This discovery opens the door to topological quantum computing. Current quantum computing systems, where the elemental units of calculation are qubits that perform superfast calculations, require superconducting materials that only function in extremely cold conditions. Fluctuations in heat can throw one of these systems out of whack. \u201cThe properties inherent to materials such as TaP [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116094","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\/116094","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}