{"id":229235,"date":"2026-01-17T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/detecting-single-electron-qubits-microwaves-could-probe-quantum-states-above-liquid-helium"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:09:35","slug":"detecting-single-electron-qubits-microwaves-could-probe-quantum-states-above-liquid-helium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/detecting-single-electron-qubits-microwaves-could-probe-quantum-states-above-liquid-helium","title":{"rendered":"Detecting single-electron qubits: Microwaves could probe quantum states above liquid helium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detecting-single-electron-qubits-microwaves-could-probe-quantum-states-above-liquid-helium2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One intriguing method that could be used to form the qubits needed for quantum computers involves electrons hovering above liquid helium. But it wasn\u2019t clear how data in this form could be read easily.<\/p>\n<p>Now RIKEN researchers may have found a solution. Their work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/5y8p-qhb4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One intriguing method that could be used to form the qubits needed for quantum computers involves electrons hovering above liquid helium. But it wasn\u2019t clear how data in this form could be read easily. Now RIKEN researchers may have found a solution. Their work is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229235","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\/229235","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}