{"id":125035,"date":"2021-07-16T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/unconventional-superconductor-acts-the-part-of-a-promising-quantum-computing-platform"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:23:05","slug":"unconventional-superconductor-acts-the-part-of-a-promising-quantum-computing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/unconventional-superconductor-acts-the-part-of-a-promising-quantum-computing-platform","title":{"rendered":"Unconventional superconductor acts the part of a promising quantum computing platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unconventional-superconductor-acts-the-part-of-a-promising-quantum-computing-platform2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they\u2019ve found one. In a pair of papers, researchers at the University of Maryland\u2019s (UMD) Quantum Materials Center (QMC) and colleagues have shown that uranium ditelluride (or UTe<sub>2<\/sub> for short) displays many of the hallmarks of a topological superconductor\u2014a material that may unlock new ways to build quantum computers and other futuristic devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature can be wicked,\u201d says Johnpierre Paglione, a professor of physics at UMD, the director of QMC and senior author on one of the papers. \u201cThere could be other reasons we\u2019re seeing all this wacky stuff, but honestly, in my career, I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All superconductors carry electrical currents without any resistance. It\u2019s kind of their thing. The wiring behind your walls can\u2019t rival this feat, which is one of many reasons that large coils of superconducting wires and not normal copper wires have been used in MRI machines and other scientific equipment for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they\u2019ve found one. In a pair of papers, researchers at the University of Maryland\u2019s (UMD) Quantum Materials Center (QMC) and colleagues have shown that uranium ditelluride (or UTe2 for short) displays many of the hallmarks of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125035","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=125035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}