{"id":172022,"date":"2023-09-14T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-create-powerful-magnets-to-de-freeze-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:24:52","slug":"physicists-create-powerful-magnets-to-de-freeze-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-create-powerful-magnets-to-de-freeze-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create powerful magnets to de-freeze quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-powerful-magnets-to-de-freeze-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the world, allowing massive health and science computation problems to be solved exponentially faster than by classic computing. But quantum computers have a big drawback\u2014they can only operate in subzero temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to make quantum computers work, we cannot use them at room temperature,\u201d said Ahmed El-Gendy, Ph.D., an associate professor of physics at The University of Texas at El Paso. \u201cThat means we will need to cool the computers and cool all the materials, which is very expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, physicists at The University of Texas at El Paso believe they have made a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+leap\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum leap<\/a> in that regard. Led by El-Gendy, the team has developed a highly magnetic quantum computing material\u2014100 times more magnetic than pure iron\u2014that functions at regular temperature. The material is described in a summer issue of the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1063\/5.0153212\">Applied Physics Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the world, allowing massive health and science computation problems to be solved exponentially faster than by classic computing. But quantum computers have a big drawback\u2014they can only operate in subzero temperatures. \u201cIn order to make quantum computers work, we cannot use them at room temperature,\u201d said Ahmed El-Gendy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}