{"id":236265,"date":"2026-04-30T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/superconducting-quantum-circuit-simulates-proton-tunneling-phenomenon-in-chemical-systems"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:31","slug":"superconducting-quantum-circuit-simulates-proton-tunneling-phenomenon-in-chemical-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/superconducting-quantum-circuit-simulates-proton-tunneling-phenomenon-in-chemical-systems","title":{"rendered":"Superconducting quantum circuit simulates proton tunneling phenomenon in chemical systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconducting-quantum-circuit-simulates-proton-tunneling-phenomenon-in-chemical-systems3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum \u201ctunneling\u201d behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so common it occurs in everything from photosynthesis to the formation of human DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The advance has the potential to aid researchers across a variety of disciplines, including the development of new solar fuels, pharmaceuticals, and materials. It is described in a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxquantum\/abstract\/10.1103\/71yp-fqns\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> in the journal PRX Quantum.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum tunneling is a mechanism by which particles, such as electrons or protons, pass through an energy barrier they should not have sufficient energy to cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum \u201ctunneling\u201d behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so common it occurs in everything from photosynthesis to the formation of human DNA. The advance has the potential to aid researchers across a variety of disciplines, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236265","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=236265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}