{"id":206726,"date":"2025-02-19T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/doubling-down-on-a-century-old-math-formula-unlocks-more-controllable-qubits"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:26:34","slug":"doubling-down-on-a-century-old-math-formula-unlocks-more-controllable-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/doubling-down-on-a-century-old-math-formula-unlocks-more-controllable-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Doubling down on a century-old math formula unlocks more controllable qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doubling-down-on-a-century-old-math-formula-unlocks-more-controllable-qubits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have found a simple and effective way to skip over an energy level in a three-state system, potentially leading to increased quantum computational power with fewer qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a century ago, Lev Landau, Clarence Zener, Ernst St\u00fcckelberg, and Ettore Majorana found a mathematical formula for the probability of jumps between two states in a system whose energy is time-dependent. Their formula has since had countless applications in various systems across physics and chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Now physicists at Aalto University\u2019s Department of Applied Physics have shown that the jump between different states can be realized in systems with more than two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+levels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy levels<\/a> via a virtual transition to an intermediate state and by a linear chirp of the drive frequency. This process can be applied to systems where it is not possible to modify the energy of the levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have found a simple and effective way to skip over an energy level in a three-state system, potentially leading to increased quantum computational power with fewer qubits. Nearly a century ago, Lev Landau, Clarence Zener, Ernst St\u00fcckelberg, and Ettore Majorana found a mathematical formula for the probability of jumps between two states in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206726","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=206726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}