{"id":203734,"date":"2025-01-14T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-computers-get-automatic-error-correction-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:33:07","slug":"quantum-computers-get-automatic-error-correction-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-computers-get-automatic-error-correction-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computers get automatic error correction for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-get-automatic-error-correction-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny cooling device can automatically reset malfunctioning components of a quantum computer. Its performance suggests that manipulating heat could also enable other autonomous quantum devices.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers aren\u2019t yet fully practical because they make too many errors. In fact, if qubits \u2013 key components of this type of computer \u2013 accidentally heat up and become too energetic, they can end up in an erroneous state before the calculation even begins. One way to \u201creset\u201d the qubits to their correct states is to cool them down.<\/p>\n<p>Image: chalmers university of technology, lovisa h\u00e5kansson.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A tiny quantum \u201crefrigerator\u201d can ensure that a quantum computer\u2019s calculations start off error-free \u2013 without requiring oversight or even new hardware.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/karmela-padavic-callaghan\/\" class=\"\">Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny cooling device can automatically reset malfunctioning components of a quantum computer. Its performance suggests that manipulating heat could also enable other autonomous quantum devices. Quantum computers aren\u2019t yet fully practical because they make too many errors. In fact, if qubits \u2013 key components of this type of computer \u2013 accidentally heat up and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203734","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}