{"id":160854,"date":"2023-03-23T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/doubling-a-qubits-life-researchers-prove-a-key-theory-of-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:29:23","slug":"doubling-a-qubits-life-researchers-prove-a-key-theory-of-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/doubling-a-qubits-life-researchers-prove-a-key-theory-of-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"Doubling a qubit\u2019s life, researchers prove a key theory of quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doubling-a-qubits-life-researchers-prove-a-key-theory-of-quantum-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Yale have for the first time, using a process known as quantum error correction, substantially extended the lifetime of a quantum bit\u2014a long-sought-after goal and one of the trickiest challenges in the field of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Yale\u2019s Michael Devoret, the experiment proves\u2014decades after its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+foundations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical foundations<\/a> were proposed\u2014that quantum error correction works in practice. Quantum error correction is a process designed to keep quantum information intact for a period of time longer than if the same information were stored in hardware components without any correction.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published March 22 in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Yale have for the first time, using a process known as quantum error correction, substantially extended the lifetime of a quantum bit\u2014a long-sought-after goal and one of the trickiest challenges in the field of quantum physics. Led by Yale\u2019s Michael Devoret, the experiment proves\u2014decades after its theoretical foundations were proposed\u2014that quantum error correction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160854","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=160854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}