{"id":22378,"date":"2016-02-19T23:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/crunching-quantum-code"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:09","slug":"crunching-quantum-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/crunching-quantum-code","title":{"rendered":"Crunching Quantum Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crunching-quantum-code.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT has developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on the surface of a topological insulator that they\u2019re experimenting with to process 0\u2019s &amp; 1\u2019s \u2014 if they are successful; this could possibly get us within a 5 yr window for QC platforms.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on the surface of a topological insulator.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers propose basing both quantum computation and error correction on the peculiar behavior of electrons at neighboring corners of these islands and their ability to interact across islands at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>The system can characterize the state of a quantum bit as a zero or a one based on whether there is an odd or even number of electrons associated with a superconducting quantum bit, but the underlying physical interactions that enables this are highly complex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/news\/198471-crunching-quantum-code\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on the surface of a topological insulator that they\u2019re experimenting with to process 0\u2019s &amp; 1\u2019s \u2014 if they are successful; this could possibly get us within a 5 yr window for QC platforms. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68356,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions\/68356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}