{"id":117619,"date":"2020-12-25T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat-new-device-combines-schrodingers-cat-with-quantum-error-correction"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T19:23:14","slug":"quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat-new-device-combines-schrodingers-cat-with-quantum-error-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat-new-device-combines-schrodingers-cat-with-quantum-error-correction","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Researchers Create an Error-Correcting Cat \u2013 New Device Combines Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Cat With Quantum Error Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-researchers-create-an-error-correcting-cat-new-device-combines-schrodingers-cat-with-quantum-error-correction.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat \u2014 a 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 information, called qubits, while performing a task.<\/p>\n<p>A new study reporting on the discovery appears in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>. 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 \u2014 a 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 [\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-117619","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\/117619","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=117619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}