{"id":204220,"date":"2025-01-21T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-succeed-in-trapping-molecules-to-perform-quantum-operations-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:23:23","slug":"scientists-succeed-in-trapping-molecules-to-perform-quantum-operations-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-succeed-in-trapping-molecules-to-perform-quantum-operations-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists succeed in trapping molecules to perform quantum operations for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-succeed-in-trapping-molecules-to-perform-quantum-operations-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molecules haven\u2019t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to make the ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster. Their rich internal structures were seen as too complicated, too delicate, too unpredictable to manage, so smaller particles have been used.<\/p>\n<p>But a team of Harvard scientists has succeeded for the first time in trapping molecules to perform <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+operations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum operations<\/a>. This feat was accomplished by using ultra-cold polar molecules as qubits, or the fundamental units of information that power the technology. The findings, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08177-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, open new realms of possibility for harnessing the complexity of molecular structures for future applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a field we have been trying to do this for 20 years,\u201d said senior co-author Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve finally been able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecules haven\u2019t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to make the ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster. Their rich internal structures were seen as too complicated, too delicate, too unpredictable to manage, so smaller particles have been used. But a team of Harvard scientists has succeeded for the first time in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204220","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}