{"id":147184,"date":"2022-09-28T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/engineering-robust-and-scalable-molecular-qubits"},"modified":"2022-09-28T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:23:59","slug":"engineering-robust-and-scalable-molecular-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/engineering-robust-and-scalable-molecular-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Engineering robust and scalable molecular qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-robust-and-scalable-molecular-qubits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept of \u201csymmetry\u201d is essential to fundamental physics: a crucial element in everything from subatomic particles to macroscopic crystals. Accordingly, a lack of symmetry\u2014or asymmetry\u2014can drastically affect the properties of a given system.<\/p>\n<p>Qubits, the quantum analog of computer bits for quantum computers, are extremely sensitive\u2014the barest disturbance in a qubit system is enough for it to lose any <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> it might have carried. Given this fragility, it seems intuitive that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">qubits<\/a> would be most stable in a symmetric environment. However, for a certain type of qubit\u2014a molecular qubit\u2014the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), the University of Glasgow, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that molecular qubits are much more stable in an asymmetric environment, expanding the possible applications of such qubits, especially as biological quantum sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of \u201csymmetry\u201d is essential to fundamental physics: a crucial element in everything from subatomic particles to macroscopic crystals. Accordingly, a lack of symmetry\u2014or asymmetry\u2014can drastically affect the properties of a given system. Qubits, the quantum analog of computer bits for quantum computers, are extremely sensitive\u2014the barest disturbance in a qubit system is enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147184","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}