{"id":181963,"date":"2024-02-03T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/tiny-bending-station-transforms-everyday-materials-into-quantum-conductors"},"modified":"2024-02-03T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:24:57","slug":"tiny-bending-station-transforms-everyday-materials-into-quantum-conductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/tiny-bending-station-transforms-everyday-materials-into-quantum-conductors","title":{"rendered":"Tiny \u2018bending station\u2019 transforms everyday materials into quantum conductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-bending-station-transforms-everyday-materials-into-quantum-conductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using this technique, even a non-conducting material like glass could be turned into a conductor some day feel researchers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has developed a method that converts everyday materials into conductors that can be used to build quantum computers, a press release said.<\/p>\n<p>Computing devices that are ubiquitous today are built of silicon, a semiconductor material. Under certain conditions, silicon behaves like a conducting material but has limitations that impact its ability to compute larger numbers. The world\u2019s fastest supercomputers are built by putting together silicon-based components but are touted to be slower than quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/new-magnets-quantum-computing-room-temperature\" title=\"Quantum computers\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Quantum computers<\/a> do not have the same limitations of silicon-based ocmputing and prototypes being built today can compute in seconds what supercomputers would take years to complete. This can open up a whole new level of computing prowess if they could be built and operated with easier-to-work material. Researchers at UCI have been working to determine how high-quality quantum materials can be obtained. They have now found a simpler way to make them from everyday materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using this technique, even a non-conducting material like glass could be turned into a conductor some day feel researchers. A collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has developed a method that converts everyday materials into conductors that can be used to build quantum computers, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181963","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}