{"id":218522,"date":"2025-07-22T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/gold-clusters-mimic-atomic-spin-properties-for-scalable-quantum-computing-applications"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:15:08","slug":"gold-clusters-mimic-atomic-spin-properties-for-scalable-quantum-computing-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/gold-clusters-mimic-atomic-spin-properties-for-scalable-quantum-computing-applications","title":{"rendered":"Gold clusters mimic atomic spin properties for scalable quantum computing applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gold-clusters-mimic-atomic-spin-properties-for-scalable-quantum-computing-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high-performance quantum applications relies on tapping into the spin properties of electrons of atoms trapped in a gas, but these systems are difficult to scale up for use in larger quantum devices like quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers from Penn State and Colorado State has demonstrated how a gold cluster can mimic these gaseous, trapped atoms, allowing scientists to take advantage of these spin properties in a system that can be easily scaled up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we show that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gold+nanoclusters\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gold nanoclusters<\/a> have the same key spin properties as the current state-of-the-art methods for quantum information systems,\u201d said Ken Knappenberger, department head and professor of chemistry in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and leader of the research team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high-performance quantum applications relies on tapping into the spin properties of electrons of atoms trapped in a gas, but these systems are difficult to scale up for [\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-218522","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\/218522","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=218522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}