{"id":163669,"date":"2023-05-11T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-create-long-sought-topological-quantum-states"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:42","slug":"physicists-create-long-sought-topological-quantum-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-create-long-sought-topological-quantum-states","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create long-sought topological quantum states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-long-sought-topological-quantum-states2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exotic particles are called non-Abelian anyons, or nonabelions for short, and their Borromean rings exist only as information inside the quantum computer. But their linking properties could help to make quantum computers less error-prone, or more \u2018fault-tolerant\u2019 \u2014 a key step to making them outperform even the best conventional computers. The results, revealed in a preprint on 9 May<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01574-0#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, were obtained on a machine at Quantinuum, a quantum-computing company in Broomfield, Colorado, that formed as the result of a merger between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03237-w\">the quantum computing unit of Honeywell<\/a> and a start-up firm based in Cambridge, UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the credible path to fault-tolerant quantum computing,\u201d says Tony Uttley, Quantinuum\u2019s president and chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers are less optimistic about the virtual nonabelions\u2019 potential to revolutionize quantum computing, but creating them is seen as an achievement in itself. \u201cThere is enormous mathematical beauty in this type of physical system, and it\u2019s incredible to see them realized for the first time, after a long time,\u201d says Steven Simon, a theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exotic particles are called non-Abelian anyons, or nonabelions for short, and their Borromean rings exist only as information inside the quantum computer. But their linking properties could help to make quantum computers less error-prone, or more \u2018fault-tolerant\u2019 \u2014 a key step to making them outperform even the best conventional computers. The results, revealed in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163669","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=163669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}