{"id":139250,"date":"2022-05-12T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/quantum-one-way-street-in-topological-insulator-nanowires"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:02:21","slug":"quantum-one-way-street-in-topological-insulator-nanowires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/quantum-one-way-street-in-topological-insulator-nanowires","title":{"rendered":"Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-one-way-street-in-topological-insulator-nanowires.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly stable qubits, the building blocks of future quantum computers. Scientists see a new result in topological insulator devices as an important step towards realizing the technology\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n<p>An international group of scientists have demonstrated that wires more than 100 times thinner than a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+hair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human hair<\/a> can act like a quantum one-way street for electrons when made of a peculiar material known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/topological+insulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">topological insulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery opens the pathway for new technological applications of devices made from topological insulators and demonstrates a significant step on the road to achieving so-called topological qubits, which it has been predicted can robustly encode information for a quantum computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly stable qubits, the building blocks of future quantum computers. Scientists see a new result in topological insulator devices as an important step towards realizing the technology\u2019s potential. An international group of scientists have demonstrated that wires more than 100 times thinner than a human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139250","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}