{"id":179154,"date":"2023-12-25T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harvard-unveils-worlds-first-logical-quantum-processor"},"modified":"2023-12-25T20:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T02:28:05","slug":"harvard-unveils-worlds-first-logical-quantum-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harvard-unveils-worlds-first-logical-quantum-processor","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Unveils World\u2019s First Logical Quantum Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-unveils-worlds-first-logical-quantum-processor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvard\u2019s breakthrough in quantum computing features a new logical quantum processor with 48 logical qubits, enabling large-scale algorithm execution on an error-corrected system. This development, led by Mikhail Lukin, represents a major advance towards practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In quantum computing, a quantum bit or \u201cqubit\u201d is one unit of information, just like a binary bit in classical computing. For more than two decades, physicists and engineers have shown the world that quantum computing is, in principle, possible by manipulating quantum particles \u00ad\u2013 be they atoms, ions or photons \u2013 to create physical qubits.<\/p>\n<p>But successfully exploiting the weirdness of quantum mechanics for computation is more complicated than simply amassing a large-enough number of physical qubits, which are inherently unstable and prone to collapse out of their quantum states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard\u2019s breakthrough in quantum computing features a new logical quantum processor with 48 logical qubits, enabling large-scale algorithm execution on an error-corrected system. This development, led by Mikhail Lukin, represents a major advance towards practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers. In quantum computing, a quantum bit or \u201cqubit\u201d is one unit of information, just like a binary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179154","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}