{"id":22180,"date":"2016-02-16T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/controlling-lasers-to-a-millionth-of-a-percent-for-trapped-ion-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:55:29","slug":"controlling-lasers-to-a-millionth-of-a-percent-for-trapped-ion-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/controlling-lasers-to-a-millionth-of-a-percent-for-trapped-ion-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Controlling lasers to a millionth of a percent for trapped ion quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-lasers-to-a-millionth-of-a-percent-for-trapped-ion-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jungsang Kim is trying to create a quantum computer by controlling the frequency of a laser to within a millionth of a percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to David DiVincenzo, a prominent computer scientist at IBM, researchers must meet five criteria to create a true quantum computing device.<\/p>\n<p>First, Kim needs a well-defined system that can represent different states. For example, classical computers use small electrical switches made out of semiconductors to indicate a 1 or a 0. But because an atom\u2019s quantum spin can point in an infinite number of directions, controlling its state with a high degree of reliability is very difficult. Kim\u2019s group has demonstrated this feat with an accuracy on par with anyone in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/02\/controlling-lasers-to-millionth-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jungsang Kim is trying to create a quantum computer by controlling the frequency of a laser to within a millionth of a percent. According to David DiVincenzo, a prominent computer scientist at IBM, researchers must meet five criteria to create a true quantum computing device. First, Kim needs a well-defined system that can represent different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22180","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\/22180","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62859,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions\/62859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}