{"id":216927,"date":"2025-07-01T06:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/qa-companies-are-racing-to-develop-the-first-useful-quantum-computer-ultracold-neutral-atoms-could-be-the-key"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:16:38","slug":"qa-companies-are-racing-to-develop-the-first-useful-quantum-computer-ultracold-neutral-atoms-could-be-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/qa-companies-are-racing-to-develop-the-first-useful-quantum-computer-ultracold-neutral-atoms-could-be-the-key","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer\u2014ultracold neutral atoms could be the key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qa-companies-are-racing-to-develop-the-first-useful-quantum-computer-ultracold-neutral-atoms-could-be-the-key.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies all want to take the crown, with Microsoft announcing the first of its kind quantum chip in February, only days before Google\u2019s breakthrough on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+error+correction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum error correction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the race heats up, companies are turning to a new ultracold solution\u2014neutral atoms\u2014which Swinburne University of Technology has been exploring and making discoveries in for two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. Tech companies all want to take the crown, with Microsoft announcing the first of its kind quantum chip in February, only days before Google\u2019s breakthrough on quantum error correction. As [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216927","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=216927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}