{"id":206165,"date":"2025-02-11T22:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/disorganizing-rare-earth-ions-may-improve-quantum-information-storage"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:02:25","slug":"disorganizing-rare-earth-ions-may-improve-quantum-information-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/disorganizing-rare-earth-ions-may-improve-quantum-information-storage","title":{"rendered":"Disorganizing rare-earth ions may improve quantum information storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disorganizing-rare-earth-ions-may-improve-quantum-information-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new paper in Nature Physics shows that by cramming lots of rare-earth ions into a crystal, some will form pairs that act as highly coherent qubits, thus debunking the idea that solid-state qubits need to be super dilute in an ultra-clean material to achieve long lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study\u2019s authors, one of the major barriers to practical quantum computing has been how to make qubits that retain their quantum information long enough to be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper in Nature Physics shows that by cramming lots of rare-earth ions into a crystal, some will form pairs that act as highly coherent qubits, thus debunking the idea that solid-state qubits need to be super dilute in an ultra-clean material to achieve long lifetimes. According to the study\u2019s authors, one of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206165","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}