{"id":184259,"date":"2024-03-02T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/fractional-electrons-mits-new-graphene-breakthrough-is-shaping-the-future-of-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T01:23:41","slug":"fractional-electrons-mits-new-graphene-breakthrough-is-shaping-the-future-of-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/fractional-electrons-mits-new-graphene-breakthrough-is-shaping-the-future-of-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Fractional Electrons: MIT\u2019s New Graphene Breakthrough Is Shaping the Future of Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fractional-electrons-mits-new-graphene-breakthrough-is-shaping-the-future-of-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An exotic electronic state observed by MIT physicists could enable more robust forms of quantum computing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we\u2019re taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature.<\/p>\n<p>But in very special states of matter, electrons can splinter into fractions of their whole. This phenomenon, known as \u201cfractional charge,\u201d is exceedingly rare, and if it can be corralled and controlled, the exotic electronic state could help to build resilient, fault-tolerant quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exotic electronic state observed by MIT physicists could enable more robust forms of quantum computing. The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we\u2019re taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature. But in very special [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184259","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=184259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}