{"id":19664,"date":"2015-11-28T02:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-have-discovered-a-material-that-could-create-quantum-optical-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:40","slug":"scientists-have-discovered-a-material-that-could-create-quantum-optical-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-have-discovered-a-material-that-could-create-quantum-optical-computers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have discovered a material that could create quantum optical computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-discovered-a-material-that-could-create-quantum-optical-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people talk about the next-generation of computers, they\u2019re usually referring to one of two things: quantum computers \u2013 devices that will have exponentially greater processing power thanks to the addition of quantum superposition to the binary code \u2013 and optical computers, which will beam data at the speed of light without generating all the heat and wasted energy of traditional electronic computers.<\/p>\n<p>Both of those have the power to revolutionise computing as we know it, and now scientists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/about\/faculty-science\">University of Technology, Sydney<\/a> have discovered a material that has the potential to combine both of those abilities in one ridiculously powerful computer of the future. Just hold on for a second while we freak out over here.<\/p>\n<p>The material is layered hexagonal boron nitride, which is a bit of a mouthful, but all you really need to know about it is that it\u2019s only one atom thick \u2013 just like graphene \u2013 and it has the ability to emit a single pulse of quantum light on demand at room temperature, making it ideal to help build a quantum optical computer chip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-discovered-a-material-that-could-create-quantum-optical-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about the next-generation of computers, they\u2019re usually referring to one of two things: quantum computers \u2013 devices that will have exponentially greater processing power thanks to the addition of quantum superposition to the binary code \u2013 and optical computers, which will beam data at the speed of light without generating all the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69109,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions\/69109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}