{"id":219038,"date":"2025-07-30T04:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/from-thousands-of-defects-one-magnesium-oxide-qubit-emerges-as-a-quantum-contender"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:18:26","slug":"from-thousands-of-defects-one-magnesium-oxide-qubit-emerges-as-a-quantum-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/from-thousands-of-defects-one-magnesium-oxide-qubit-emerges-as-a-quantum-contender","title":{"rendered":"From thousands of defects, one magnesium oxide qubit emerges as a quantum contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-thousands-of-defects-one-magnesium-oxide-qubit-emerges-as-a-quantum-contender.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Used as a versatile material in industry and health care, magnesium oxide may also be a good candidate for quantum technologies. Research led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41524-025-01558-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>npj Computational Materials<\/i> reveals a defect in the mineral that could be useful for quantum applications.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are exploring possible building blocks, known as qubits, for systems that could exploit <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum properties<\/a>. These systems could operate in various devices that may outperform classical supercomputers, form unhackable networks or detect the faintest signals.<\/p>\n<p>Unlocking the potential of qubits for applications such as quantum computing, sensing and communications requires an understanding of materials on the atomic scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used as a versatile material in industry and health care, magnesium oxide may also be a good candidate for quantum technologies. Research led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and published in npj Computational Materials reveals a defect in the mineral that could be useful for quantum applications. Researchers are exploring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219038","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=219038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}