{"id":207473,"date":"2025-02-28T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-quantum-computing-startup-says-it-is-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips"},"modified":"2025-02-28T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:07:11","slug":"a-quantum-computing-startup-says-it-is-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-quantum-computing-startup-says-it-is-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips","title":{"rendered":"A quantum computing startup says it is already making millions of light-powered chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-computing-startup-says-it-is-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company uses so-called \u201cphotonic\u201d quantum computing, which has long been dismissed as impractical.<\/p>\n<p>The approach, which encodes data in individual particles of light, offers some compelling advantages \u2014 low noise, high-speed operation, and natural compatibility with existing fibre-optic networks. However, it was held back by extreme hardware demands to manage the fact photons fly with blinding speed, get lost, and are hard to create and detect.<\/p>\n<p>PsiQuantum now claims to have addressed many of these difficulties. Yesterday, in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08820-7\">peer-reviewed paper published in Nature<\/a>, the company unveiled hardware for photonic quantum computing they say can be manufactured in large quantities and solves the problem of scaling up the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company uses so-called \u201cphotonic\u201d quantum computing, which has long been dismissed as impractical. The approach, which encodes data in individual particles of light, offers some compelling advantages \u2014 low noise, high-speed operation, and natural compatibility with existing fibre-optic networks. However, it was held back by extreme hardware demands to manage the fact photons fly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207473","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\/207473","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}