{"id":122608,"date":"2021-05-15T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-leap-for-quantum-computing-ion-beams-create-chains-of-closely-coupled-qubits"},"modified":"2021-05-15T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:23:00","slug":"quantum-leap-for-quantum-computing-ion-beams-create-chains-of-closely-coupled-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-leap-for-quantum-computing-ion-beams-create-chains-of-closely-coupled-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Leap for Quantum Computing: Ion Beams Create Chains of Closely Coupled Qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-for-quantum-computing-ion-beams-create-chains-of-closely-coupled-qubits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new way to form self-aligned \u2018color centers\u2019 promises scalability to over 10000 qubits for applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Achieving the immense promise of quantum computing requires new developments at every level, including the computing hardware itself. A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)-led international team of researchers has discovered a way to use ion beams to create long strings of \u201ccolor center\u201d qubits in diamond. Their work is detailed in the journal <em>Applied Physics Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors includes several from Berkeley Lab: Arun Persaud, who led the study, and Thomas Schenkel, head of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division\u2019s Fusion Science &amp; Ion Beam Technology Program, as well as Casey Christian (now with Berkeley Lab\u2019s Physics Division), Edward Barnard of Berkeley Lab\u2019s Molecular Foundry, and ATAP affiliate Russell E. Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to form self-aligned \u2018color centers\u2019 promises scalability to over 10000 qubits for applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing. Achieving the immense promise of quantum computing requires new developments at every level, including the computing hardware itself. A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)-led international team of researchers has discovered a way [\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-122608","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\/122608","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=122608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}