{"id":168310,"date":"2023-07-25T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-new-type-of-quantum-bit-in-semiconductor-nanostructures"},"modified":"2023-07-25T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:25:00","slug":"a-new-type-of-quantum-bit-in-semiconductor-nanostructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-new-type-of-quantum-bit-in-semiconductor-nanostructures","title":{"rendered":"A new type of quantum bit in semiconductor nanostructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-type-of-quantum-bit-in-semiconductor-nanostructures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a quantum superposition state in a semiconductor nanostructure that might serve as a basis for quantum computing. The trick: two optical laser pulses that act as a single terahertz laser pulse.<\/p>\n<p>A German-Chinese research team has successfully created a quantum bit in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using a special energy transition, the researchers created a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superposition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superposition<\/a> state in a quantum dot\u2014a tiny area of the semiconductor\u2014in which an electron hole simultaneously possessed two different energy levels. Such superposition states are fundamental for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>However, excitation of the state would require a large-scale free-electron <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> that can emit light in the terahertz range. Additionally, this wavelength is too long to focus the beam on the tiny quantum dot. The German-Chinese team has now achieved the excitation with two finely tuned short-wavelength optical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser pulses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a quantum superposition state in a semiconductor nanostructure that might serve as a basis for quantum computing. The trick: two optical laser pulses that act as a single terahertz laser pulse. A German-Chinese research team has successfully created a quantum bit in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using a special energy transition, the researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168310","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=168310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}