{"id":211738,"date":"2025-04-18T02:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-quantum-game-showcases-the-promise-of-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:18:28","slug":"new-quantum-game-showcases-the-promise-of-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-quantum-game-showcases-the-promise-of-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"New quantum \u2018game\u2019 showcases the promise of quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-game-showcases-the-promise-of-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine the tiniest game of checkers in the world\u2014one played by using lasers to precisely shuffle around ions across a very small grid.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind a recent study <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.130602\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>. A team of theoretical physicists from Colorado has designed a new type of quantum \u201cgame\u201d that scientists can play on a real quantum computer\u2014or a device that manipulates small objects, such as atoms, to perform calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers even tested their game out on one such device, the Quantinuum System Model H1 Quantum Computer developed by the company Quantinuum. The study is a collaboration between scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and Quantinuum, which is based in Broomfield, Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the tiniest game of checkers in the world\u2014one played by using lasers to precisely shuffle around ions across a very small grid. That\u2019s the idea behind a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters. A team of theoretical physicists from Colorado has designed a new type of quantum \u201cgame\u201d that scientists can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211738","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=211738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}