{"id":199742,"date":"2024-11-19T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/quantum-miracle-scientists-create-worlds-first-mechanical-qubit"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:23:58","slug":"quantum-miracle-scientists-create-worlds-first-mechanical-qubit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/quantum-miracle-scientists-create-worlds-first-mechanical-qubit","title":{"rendered":"Quantum miracle: Scientists create world\u2019s first mechanical qubit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-miracle-scientists-create-worlds-first-mechanical-qubit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed the first-ever fully functional mechanical qubit. This incredible quantum innovation is a two-in-one system combining the abilities of a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting qubit.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/microsoft-unveils-path-to-more-reliable-quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">virtual qubits that are created<\/a> using multiple physical qubits and error-correcting codes to protect quantum information, mechanical qubits are real, physical systems that don\u2019t need this extra layer of protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed the first-ever fully functional mechanical qubit. This incredible quantum innovation is a two-in-one system combining the abilities of a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting qubit. Compared to the traditional virtual qubits that are created using multiple physical qubits and error-correcting codes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199742","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}