{"id":163667,"date":"2023-05-11T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/uk-based-tech-company-claims-quantum-computing-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:21","slug":"uk-based-tech-company-claims-quantum-computing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/uk-based-tech-company-claims-quantum-computing-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"UK-based tech company claims quantum computing \u2018breakthrough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-based-tech-company-claims-quantum-computing-breakthrough3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scientists\">Scientists<\/a> at a UK-based tech company believe they are now a step closer to building a quantum computer that can solve real-world problems, after making progress towards creating a system that protects against errors.<\/p>\n<p>Experts at Quantinuum said they have made a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d towards making quantum computing fault tolerant, which would give the system the ability to continue operating without interruption, even if one or more of its components fail.<\/p>\n<p>The race to build a fully functional quantum computer has mostly focused on correcting errors that affect the system, but Ilyas Khan, the company\u2019s founder and chief product officer, said no-one has shown \u201can actual demonstration of a step towards qubits, the quantum equivalent of what we refer to as a \u2018bit\u2019 in existing computers, that are naturally fault tolerant\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at a UK-based tech company believe they are now a step closer to building a quantum computer that can solve real-world problems, after making progress towards creating a system that protects against errors. Experts at Quantinuum said they have made a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d towards making quantum computing fault tolerant, which would give the system the [\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-163667","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\/163667","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=163667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}