{"id":184926,"date":"2024-03-11T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-fresh-approach-to-quantum-computers-based-on-atoms-and-photons"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:22:23","slug":"a-fresh-approach-to-quantum-computers-based-on-atoms-and-photons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-fresh-approach-to-quantum-computers-based-on-atoms-and-photons","title":{"rendered":"A fresh approach to quantum computers based on atoms and photons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fresh-approach-to-quantum-computers-based-on-atoms-and-photons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhere between one and ten million qubits are needed for a fault-tolerant quantum computer, whereas IBM has only just realized a 1,200-qubit computer,\u201d says Aoki.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>While this approach isn\u2019t limited to any specific platform for quantum computers, it does lend itself to trapped ions and neutral atoms since they don\u2019t need to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures, which makes them much easier to connect.<\/p>\n<p><b>A hybrid approach<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Aoki and his team are investigating the possibility of using a hybrid quantum system of atoms and photons known as a cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system as a promising way to connect units. \u201cCavity QED provides an ideal interface between optical qubits and atomic qubits for distributed quantum computing,\u201d says Aoki. \u201cRecently, key building blocks for realizing quantum computers based on cavity QED, such as single-photon sources and various quantum gates, have been demonstrated using free-space cavities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article: \u201cSomewhere between one and ten million qubits are needed for a fault-tolerant quantum computer, whereas IBM has only just realized a 1,200-qubit computer,\u201d says Aoki. While this approach isn\u2019t limited to any specific platform for quantum computers, it does lend itself to trapped ions and neutral atoms since they don\u2019t need to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184926","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}