{"id":190712,"date":"2024-06-06T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/calcium-oxides-quantum-secret-nearly-noiseless-qubits"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:23:20","slug":"calcium-oxides-quantum-secret-nearly-noiseless-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/calcium-oxides-quantum-secret-nearly-noiseless-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Calcium oxide\u2019s quantum secret: nearly noiseless qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calcium-oxides-quantum-secret-nearly-noiseless-qubits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calcium oxide is a cheap, chalky chemical compound commonly used in the manufacturing of cement, plaster, paper, and steel. But the material may soon have a more high-tech application.<\/p>\n<p>UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers and their collaborator in Sweden have used theoretical and computational approaches to discover how tiny, lone atoms of bismuth embedded within solid calcium oxide can act as qubits \u2014 the building blocks of quantum computers and quantum communication devices.<\/p>\n<p>These qubits are described in Nature Communications (\u201cDiscovery of atomic clock-like spin defects in simple oxides from first principles\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium oxide is a cheap, chalky chemical compound commonly used in the manufacturing of cement, plaster, paper, and steel. But the material may soon have a more high-tech application. UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers and their collaborator in Sweden have used theoretical and computational approaches to discover how tiny, lone atoms of bismuth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190712","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=190712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}