{"id":231174,"date":"2026-02-12T05:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/majorana-qubits-become-readable-as-quantum-capacitance-detects-even-odd-states"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:33:49","slug":"majorana-qubits-become-readable-as-quantum-capacitance-detects-even-odd-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/majorana-qubits-become-readable-as-quantum-capacitance-detects-even-odd-states","title":{"rendered":"Majorana qubits become readable as quantum capacitance detects even-odd states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/majorana-qubits-become-readable-as-quantum-capacitance-detects-even-odd-states2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related to the promising but elusive Majorana qubits. Now, an international team has read the information stored in these quantum bits. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09927-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crucial advance,\u201d explains Ram\u00f3n Aguado, a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) researcher at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM) and one of the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work is pioneering because we demonstrate that we can access the information stored in Majorana qubits using a new technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-electron-qubits-microwaves-probe-quantum.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">quantum capacitance<\/a>,\u201d continues the scientist, who explains that this technique \u201cacts as a global probe sensitive to the overall state of the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related to the promising but elusive Majorana qubits. Now, an international team has read the information stored in these quantum bits. The findings are published in the journal Nature. \u201cThis is a crucial advance,\u201d explains [\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-231174","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\/231174","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=231174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}