{"id":231167,"date":"2026-02-12T05:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quantum-computing-breakthrough-scientists-finally-unlock-the-secret-of-majorana-qubits"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:31:03","slug":"quantum-computing-breakthrough-scientists-finally-unlock-the-secret-of-majorana-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quantum-computing-breakthrough-scientists-finally-unlock-the-secret-of-majorana-qubits","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Scientists Finally Unlock the Secret of Majorana Qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-breakthrough-scientists-finally-unlock-the-secret-of-majorana-qubits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have finally figured out how to read ultra-secure Majorana qubits\u2014bringing robust quantum computing a big step closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crucial advance,\u201d says Ram\u00f3n Aguado, a CSIC researcher at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM) and co author of the study. He explains that the team has shown it is possible to retrieve information stored in Majorana qubits using a technique known as quantum capacitance. According to Aguado, this method works as \u201ca global probe sensitive to the overall state of the system,\u201d allowing researchers to detect properties that were previously out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Why topological qubits are so hard to measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have finally figured out how to read ultra-secure Majorana qubits\u2014bringing robust quantum computing a big step closer. \u201cThis is a crucial advance,\u201d says Ram\u00f3n Aguado, a CSIC researcher at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM) and co author of the study. He explains that the team has shown it is possible to retrieve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231167","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\/231167","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=231167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}