{"id":215841,"date":"2025-06-13T06:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/harnessing-magnons-for-quantum-information-processing"},"modified":"2025-06-13T06:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:17:44","slug":"harnessing-magnons-for-quantum-information-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/harnessing-magnons-for-quantum-information-processing","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing magnons for quantum information processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-magnons-for-quantum-information-processing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have determined how to use magnons\u2014collective vibrations of the magnetic spins of atoms\u2014for next-generation information technologies, including quantum technologies with magnetic systems.<\/p>\n<p>From the computer hard drives that store our data to the motors and engines that drive power plants, magnetism is central to many transformative technologies. Magnetic materials are expected to play an even larger role in new technologies on the horizon: the transmission and processing of quantum information and the development of quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>New research led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory developed an approach to control the collective magnetic properties of atoms in real time and potentially deploy them for next-generation information technologies. This discovery could aid in developing future quantum computers, which can perform tasks that would be impossible using today\u2019s computers, as well as \u201con chip\u201d technologies\u2014with magnetic systems embedded on semiconductor chips, or \u201con chip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined how to use magnons\u2014collective vibrations of the magnetic spins of atoms\u2014for next-generation information technologies, including quantum technologies with magnetic systems. From the computer hard drives that store our data to the motors and engines that drive power plants, magnetism is central to many transformative technologies. Magnetic materials are expected to play an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215841","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\/215841","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=215841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}