{"id":18170,"date":"2015-10-06T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/crucial-hurdle-overcome-in-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:54","slug":"crucial-hurdle-overcome-in-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/crucial-hurdle-overcome-in-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Crucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crucial-hurdle-overcome-in-quantum-computing.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal <i><i>Nature<\/i><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have is a game changer,\u201d said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate \u2014 the central building block of a quantum computer \u2014 and, significantly, done it in <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\">silicon<\/a>. Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs, which rely on more exotic technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-crucial-hurdle-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature. \u201cWhat we have is a game changer,\u201d said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW. \u201cWe\u2019ve demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170","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=18170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69408,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170\/revisions\/69408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}