{"id":208309,"date":"2025-03-11T06:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-quantum-goblet-may-hold-the-key-to-the-future-of-computing"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:18:42","slug":"a-quantum-goblet-may-hold-the-key-to-the-future-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-quantum-goblet-may-hold-the-key-to-the-future-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"A Quantum \u201cGoblet\u201d May Hold the Key to the Future of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-goblet-may-hold-the-key-to-the-future-of-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, as with much of quantum physics, this \u201clanguage\u201d\u2014the interaction between spins\u2014is extraordinarily complex. While it can be described mathematically, solving the equations exactly is nearly impossible, even for relatively simple chains of just a few spins. Not exactly ideal conditions for turning theory into reality\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>A model becomes reality<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Empa\u2019s nanotech@surfaces laboratory have now developed a method that allows many spins to \u201ctalk\u201d to each other in a controlled manner \u2013 and that also enables the researchers to \u201clisten\u201d to them, i.e. to understand their interactions. Together with scientists from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Technical University of Dresden, they were able to precisely create an archetypal chain of electron spins and measure its properties in detail. Their results have now been published in the renowned journal <em><i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, as with much of quantum physics, this \u201clanguage\u201d\u2014the interaction between spins\u2014is extraordinarily complex. While it can be described mathematically, solving the equations exactly is nearly impossible, even for relatively simple chains of just a few spins. Not exactly ideal conditions for turning theory into reality\u2026 A model becomes reality Researchers at Empa\u2019s nanotech@surfaces laboratory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208309","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=208309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}