{"id":205960,"date":"2025-02-09T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/this-quantum-computer-built-on-server-racks-paves-the-way-to-bigger-machines"},"modified":"2025-02-09T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:05:13","slug":"this-quantum-computer-built-on-server-racks-paves-the-way-to-bigger-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/this-quantum-computer-built-on-server-racks-paves-the-way-to-bigger-machines","title":{"rendered":"This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-quantum-computer-built-on-server-racks-paves-the-way-to-bigger-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily scaled up to achieve the computational power needed to tackle scientific challenges ranging from drug discovery to more energy-efficient machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora is a \u201cphotonic\u201d quantum computer, which means it crunches numbers using photonic qubits\u2014information encoded in light. In practice, this means combining and recombining laser beams on multiple chips using lenses, fibers, and other optics according to an algorithm. Xanadu\u2019s computer is designed in such a way that the answer to an algorithm it executes corresponds to the final number of photons in each laser beam. This approach differs from one used by Google and IBM, which involves encoding information in properties of superconducting circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily scaled up to achieve the computational power needed to tackle scientific challenges ranging from drug discovery to more energy-efficient machine learning. Aurora is a \u201cphotonic\u201d quantum computer, which means it crunches numbers using photonic qubits\u2014information encoded in light. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205960","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=205960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}