{"id":147690,"date":"2022-10-07T03:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/smart-protocol-extends-silicon-qubit-coherence"},"modified":"2022-10-07T03:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:25:26","slug":"smart-protocol-extends-silicon-qubit-coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/smart-protocol-extends-silicon-qubit-coherence","title":{"rendered":"SMART Protocol Extends Silicon Qubit\u2018 Coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SD-jA8dGFuw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/5.0096467\" data-url=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/5.0096467\" rel=\"noopener\">has achieved a breakthrough in spin qubit coherence times<\/a> (opens in new tab). The research took advantage of the team\u2019s previous work on so-called \u201cdressed\u201d qubits \u2014 qubits constantly under the effect of an electromagnetic field shielding them from interference. In addition, the researchers leveraged a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/off-the-wire\/unsw-quantum-computing-engineers-set-new-standard-in-silicon-chip-performance\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/off-the-wire\/unsw-quantum-computing-engineers-set-new-standard-in-silicon-chip-performance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">newly-designed protocol, SMART,<\/a> (opens in new tab) which leverages the increased coherence times to allow individual qubits to be safely coaxed to perform the required computations.<\/p>\n<p>The improvements allowed the researchers to register coherence times of up to two milliseconds \u2014 over a hundred times higher than similar control methods in the past, but still a ways from the amount of time your eyelids take to blink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has achieved a breakthrough in spin qubit coherence times (opens in new tab). The research took advantage of the team\u2019s previous work on so-called \u201cdressed\u201d qubits \u2014 qubits constantly under the effect of an electromagnetic field shielding them from interference. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147690","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}