{"id":183743,"date":"2024-02-26T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/resurrecting-niobium-for-quantum-science"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:28:20","slug":"resurrecting-niobium-for-quantum-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/resurrecting-niobium-for-quantum-science","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting niobium for quantum science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/resurrecting-niobium-for-quantum-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now, scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found a way to engineer a high-performing niobium-based qubit and take advantage of niobium\u2019s superior qualities.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum technology<\/a>, niobium is making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 15 years, niobium has been sitting on the bench after experiencing a few mediocre at-bats as a core qubit material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now, scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found a way to engineer a high-performing niobium-based qubit and take advantage of niobium\u2019s superior qualities. When it comes to quantum technology, niobium is making a comeback. For the past 15 years, niobium has been sitting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}