{"id":162884,"date":"2023-04-27T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-quantum-leap-in-computational-performance-of-quantum-processors"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:23:16","slug":"a-quantum-leap-in-computational-performance-of-quantum-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-quantum-leap-in-computational-performance-of-quantum-processors","title":{"rendered":"A quantum leap in computational performance of quantum processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-leap-in-computational-performance-of-quantum-processors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A project led by a group of researchers from Israel\u2019s Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with TII\u2014the Quantum Research Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is advancing quantum computing by improving the performance of superconducting qubits, the basic computation units of a superconducting quantum processor. The improved qubit, called a tunable superconducting flux qubit, is a micron-sized superconducting loop where electrical current can flow clockwise or counterclockwise, or in a quantum superposition of both directions.<\/p>\n<p>These quantum features would allow the computer to be much faster and more powerful than a normal computer. For the speed potential to be realized, the quantum computer needs to operate several hundred of qubits simultaneously without having them unintentionally interfering with each other.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative technology to that existing today in quantum processors, superconducting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/flux\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flux<\/a> qubits provide several important advantages: First, they are very fast and reliable; and second, it may be simpler to integrate many flux qubits into a processor compared to current available technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project led by a group of researchers from Israel\u2019s Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with TII\u2014the Quantum Research Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is advancing quantum computing by improving the performance of superconducting qubits, the basic computation units of a superconducting quantum processor. The improved qubit, called a tunable superconducting flux qubit, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162884","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\/162884","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}