{"id":155297,"date":"2023-01-12T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-spin-control-method-brings-billion-qubit-quantum-chips-closer"},"modified":"2023-01-12T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:24:28","slug":"new-spin-control-method-brings-billion-qubit-quantum-chips-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-spin-control-method-brings-billion-qubit-quantum-chips-closer","title":{"rendered":"New spin control method brings billion-qubit quantum chips closer"},"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\/c44nxH9MSX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian engineers have discovered a new way of precisely controlling single electrons nestled in quantum dots that run logic gates. What\u2019s more, the new mechanism is less bulky and requires fewer parts, which could prove essential to making large-scale silicon quantum computers a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The serendipitous discovery, made by engineers at the quantum computing start-up Diraq and UNSW Sydney, is detailed in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a completely new effect we\u2019d never seen before, which we didn\u2019t quite understand at first,\u201d said lead author Dr. Will Gilbert, a quantum processor engineer at Diraq, a UNSW spin-off company based at its Sydney campus. \u201cBut it quickly became clear that this was a powerful new way of controlling spins in a quantum dot. And that was super exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian engineers have discovered a new way of precisely controlling single electrons nestled in quantum dots that run logic gates. What\u2019s more, the new mechanism is less bulky and requires fewer parts, which could prove essential to making large-scale silicon quantum computers a reality. The serendipitous discovery, made by engineers at the quantum computing start-up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155297","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\/155297","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}