{"id":200457,"date":"2024-11-30T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/researchers-use-laser-beams-to-pioneer-new-quantum-computing-breakthrough"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:22:45","slug":"researchers-use-laser-beams-to-pioneer-new-quantum-computing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/researchers-use-laser-beams-to-pioneer-new-quantum-computing-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use laser beams to pioneer new quantum computing breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-laser-beams-to-pioneer-new-quantum-computing-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have developed an innovative computing system using laser beams and everyday display technology, marking a significant leap forward in the quest for more powerful quantum computing solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough, achieved by researchers at the university\u2019s Structured Light Lab, offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to advanced quantum computing by harnessing the unique properties of light. This development could potentially speed up complex calculations in fields such as logistics, finance and artificial intelligence. The research was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/app\/article\/9\/10\/106120\/3318401\/Emulating-quantum-computing-with-optical-matrix\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>APL Photonics<\/i> as the editor\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional computers work like switchboards, processing information as simple yes or no decisions. Our approach uses <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+beams\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser beams<\/a> to process multiple possibilities simultaneously, dramatically increasing computing power,\u201d says Dr. Isaac Nape, the Optica Emerging Leader Chair in Optics at Wits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have developed an innovative computing system using laser beams and everyday display technology, marking a significant leap forward in the quest for more powerful quantum computing solutions. The breakthrough, achieved by researchers at the university\u2019s Structured Light Lab, offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to advanced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200457","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=200457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}