{"id":178797,"date":"2023-12-21T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-ghostly-quasiparticle-rooted-in-a-century-old-italian-mystery-could-unlock-quantum-computings-potential"},"modified":"2023-12-21T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:25:33","slug":"a-ghostly-quasiparticle-rooted-in-a-century-old-italian-mystery-could-unlock-quantum-computings-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-ghostly-quasiparticle-rooted-in-a-century-old-italian-mystery-could-unlock-quantum-computings-potential","title":{"rendered":"A ghostly quasiparticle rooted in a century-old Italian mystery could unlock quantum computing\u2019s potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-ghostly-quasiparticle-rooted-in-a-century-old-italian-mystery-could-unlock-quantum-computings-potential3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the pursuit for anyons (Majoranas) in the context of the latest progress on multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Already, the graphene efforts have offered \u201ca breath of fresh air\u201d to the community, Alicea says. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most promising avenues that I\u2019ve seen in a while.\u201d Since leaving Microsoft, Zaletel has shifted his focus to graphene. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that this is just where you should do it now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone believes they will have enough control over the free-moving quasiparticles in the graphene system to scale up to an array of qubits\u2014or that they can create big enough gaps to keep out intruders. Manipulating the quarter-charge quasiparticles in graphene is much more complicated than moving the Majoranas at the ends of nanowires, Kouwenhoven says. \u201cIt\u2019s super interesting for physics, but for a quantum computer I don\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just across the parking lot from Station Q\u2019s new office, a third kind of Majorana hunt is underway. In an unassuming black building branded Google AI Quantum, past the company rock-climbing wall and surfboard rack, a dozen or so proto\u2013quantum computers dangle from workstations, hidden inside their chandelier-like cooling systems. Their chips contain arrays of dozens of qubits based on a more conventional technology: tiny loops of superconducting wires through which current oscillates between two electrical states. These qubits, like other standard approaches, are beset with errors, but Google researchers are hoping they can marry the Majorana\u2019s innate error protection to their quantum chip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the pursuit for anyons (Majoranas) in the context of the latest progress on multiple platforms. Already, the graphene efforts have offered \u201ca breath of fresh air\u201d to the community, Alicea says. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most promising avenues that I\u2019ve seen in a while.\u201d Since leaving Microsoft, Zaletel has shifted his focus to graphene. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178797","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}