{"id":164086,"date":"2023-05-17T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/google-quantum-ai-braids-non-abelian-anyons-a-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2023-05-17T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:22:33","slug":"google-quantum-ai-braids-non-abelian-anyons-a-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/google-quantum-ai-braids-non-abelian-anyons-a-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Google Quantum AI Braids Non-Abelian Anyons \u2014 A Breakthrough That Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-quantum-ai-braids-non-abelian-anyons-a-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal <em>Nature <\/em>on May 11, researchers at Google Quantum AI announced that they had used one of their superconducting quantum processors to observe the peculiar behavior of non-Abelian anyons for the first time ever. They also demonstrated how this phenomenon could be used to perform quantum computations. Earlier this week the quantum computing company Quantinuum released another study on the topic, complementing Google\u2019s initial discovery. These new results open a new path toward topological quantum computation, in which operations are achieved by winding non-Abelian anyons around each other like strings in a braid.<\/p>\n<p>Google Quantum AI team member and first author of the manuscript, Trond I. Andersen says, \u201cObserving the bizarre behavior of non-Abelian anyons for the first time really highlights the type of exciting phenomena we can now access with quantum computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re shown two identical objects and then asked to close your eyes. Open them again, and you see the same two objects. How can you determine if they have been swapped? Intuition says that if the objects are truly identical, there is no way to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in the journal Nature on May 11, researchers at Google Quantum AI announced that they had used one of their superconducting quantum processors to observe the peculiar behavior of non-Abelian anyons for the first time ever. They also demonstrated how this phenomenon could be used to perform quantum computations. Earlier this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164086","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}