{"id":167426,"date":"2023-07-13T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/novel-toggle-switch-could-lead-to-more-versatile-quantum-processors-with-clearer-outputs"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:26:00","slug":"novel-toggle-switch-could-lead-to-more-versatile-quantum-processors-with-clearer-outputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/novel-toggle-switch-could-lead-to-more-versatile-quantum-processors-with-clearer-outputs","title":{"rendered":"Novel \u2018toggle-switch\u2019 could lead to more versatile quantum processors with clearer outputs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-toggle-switch-could-lead-to-more-versatile-quantum-processors-with-clearer-outputs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What good is a powerful computer if you can\u2019t read its output? Or readily reprogram it to do different jobs? People who design quantum computers face these challenges, and a new device may make them easier to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The device, introduced by a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), includes two superconducting quantum bits, or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">qubits<\/a>, which are a quantum computer\u2019s analog to the logic bits in a classical computer\u2019s processing chip. The heart of this new strategy relies on a \u201ctoggle switch\u201d device that connects the qubits to a circuit called a \u201creadout resonator\u201d that can read the output of the qubits\u2019 calculations.<\/p>\n<p>This toggle switch can be flipped into different states to adjust the strength of the connections between the qubits and the readout resonator. When toggled off, all three elements are isolated from each other. When the switch is toggled on to connect the two qubits, they can interact and perform calculations. Once the calculations are complete, the toggle switch can connect either of the qubits and the readout resonator to retrieve the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What good is a powerful computer if you can\u2019t read its output? Or readily reprogram it to do different jobs? People who design quantum computers face these challenges, and a new device may make them easier to solve. The device, introduced by a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1878,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-employment","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167426","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}