{"id":192757,"date":"2024-07-10T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/physicists-move-one-step-closer-to-topological-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:32:40","slug":"physicists-move-one-step-closer-to-topological-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/physicists-move-one-step-closer-to-topological-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Physicists move one step closer to topological quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-move-one-step-closer-to-topological-quantum-computing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of experimental physicists led by the University of Cologne have shown that it is possible to create superconducting effects in special materials known for their unique edge-only electrical properties. This discovery provides a new way to explore advanced quantum states that could be crucial for developing stable and efficient quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Their study, titled \u201cInduced superconducting correlations in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator,\u201d has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02574-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductivity is a phenomenon where electricity flows without resistance in certain materials. The quantum anomalous Hall effect is another phenomenon that also causes zero resistance, but with a twist: It is confined to the edges rather than spreading throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of experimental physicists led by the University of Cologne have shown that it is possible to create superconducting effects in special materials known for their unique edge-only electrical properties. This discovery provides a new way to explore advanced quantum states that could be crucial for developing stable and efficient quantum computers. Their study, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192757","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}