{"id":236735,"date":"2026-05-07T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mobile-qubits-on-a-chip-move-us-a-step-closer-to-everyday-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:11:46","slug":"mobile-qubits-on-a-chip-move-us-a-step-closer-to-everyday-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mobile-qubits-on-a-chip-move-us-a-step-closer-to-everyday-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Mobile qubits on a chip move us a step closer to everyday quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mobile-qubits-on-a-chip-move-us-a-step-closer-to-everyday-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, quantum computers have lived under a huge bubble of hype, promising to revolutionize numerous fields, from medicine and battery design to materials science and cybersecurity. But realizing their potential on any serious practical level will only be possible if large numbers of qubits (the basic units of information) can interact with each other with high precision and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main things holding that back is that traditional qubits are fixed in place, meaning they can only talk to their immediate neighbors. But in a new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10423-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, scientists describe how they overcame this limitation by using mobile qubits that can be moved around a chip. Lars R. Schreiber at the JARA-FIT Institute for Quantum Information in Germany has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-01157-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a News &amp; Views piece in the same journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, quantum computers have lived under a huge bubble of hype, promising to revolutionize numerous fields, from medicine and battery design to materials science and cybersecurity. But realizing their potential on any serious practical level will only be possible if large numbers of qubits (the basic units of information) can interact with each other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236735","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=236735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}