{"id":166547,"date":"2023-06-27T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/researchers-make-a-quantum-computing-leap-with-a-magnetic-twist"},"modified":"2023-06-27T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:39:44","slug":"researchers-make-a-quantum-computing-leap-with-a-magnetic-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/researchers-make-a-quantum-computing-leap-with-a-magnetic-twist","title":{"rendered":"Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-make-a-quantum-computing-leap-with-a-magnetic-twist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing could revolutionize our world. For specific and crucial tasks, it promises to be exponentially faster than the zero-or-one binary technology that underlies today\u2019s machines, from supercomputers in laboratories to smartphones in our pockets. But developing quantum computers hinges on building a stable network of qubits\u2014or quantum bits\u2014to store information, access it and perform computations.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the qubit platforms unveiled to date have a common problem: They tend to be delicate and vulnerable to outside disturbances. Even a stray photon can cause trouble. Developing fault-tolerant qubits\u2014which would be immune to external perturbations\u2014could be the ultimate solution to this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by scientists and engineers at the University of Washington has announced a significant advancement in this quest. In a pair of papers published June 14 in <i>Nature<\/i> and June 22 in <i>Science<\/i>, the researchers report that in experiments with flakes of semiconductor materials\u2014each only a single layer of atoms thick\u2014they detected signatures of \u201cfractional quantum anomalous Hall\u201d (FQAH) states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing could revolutionize our world. For specific and crucial tasks, it promises to be exponentially faster than the zero-or-one binary technology that underlies today\u2019s machines, from supercomputers in laboratories to smartphones in our pockets. But developing quantum computers hinges on building a stable network of qubits\u2014or quantum bits\u2014to store information, access it and perform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}