{"id":148056,"date":"2022-10-12T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/seeing-electron-movement-at-fastest-speed-ever-could-help-unlock-next-level-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T04:22:32","slug":"seeing-electron-movement-at-fastest-speed-ever-could-help-unlock-next-level-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/seeing-electron-movement-at-fastest-speed-ever-could-help-unlock-next-level-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Seeing electron movement at fastest speed ever could help unlock next-level quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seeing-electron-movement-at-fastest-speed-ever-could-help-unlock-next-level-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured electron movement in attoseconds\u2014the fastest speed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a> move in increments of one quintillionth of a second could help push processing speeds up to a billion times faster than what is currently possible. In addition, the research offers a \u201cgame-changing\u201d tool for the study of many-body physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour current computer\u2019s processor operates in gigahertz, that\u2019s one billionth of a second per operation,\u201d said Mackillo Kira, U-M professor of electrical engineering and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computer+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer science<\/a>, who led the theoretical aspects of the study published in <i>Nature<\/i>. \u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a>, that\u2019s extremely slow because electrons within a computer chip collide trillions of times a second and each collision terminates the quantum computing cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured electron movement in attoseconds\u2014the fastest speed yet. Seeing electrons move in increments of one quintillionth of a second could help push [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148056","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\/148056","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=148056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}