{"id":222632,"date":"2025-09-29T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-demonstrate-3000-quantum-bit-system-capable-of-continuous-operation"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:04:50","slug":"physicists-demonstrate-3000-quantum-bit-system-capable-of-continuous-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-demonstrate-3000-quantum-bit-system-capable-of-continuous-operation","title":{"rendered":"Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-demonstrate-3000-quantum-bit-system-capable-of-continuous-operation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe.<\/p>\n<p>Now process this: Harvard scientists just unveiled a system that was 10 times bigger and the first quantum machine able to operate continuously without restarting.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09596-6\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the team demonstrated a system of more than 3,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+bits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum bits<\/a> (or qubits) that could run for more than two hours, surmounting a series of technical challenges and representing a significant step toward building the super computers, which could revolutionize science, medicine, finance, and other fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe. Now process this: Harvard scientists just unveiled a system that was 10 times bigger and the first quantum machine able to operate continuously without restarting. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,45,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-finance","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222632","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}