{"id":238314,"date":"2026-06-04T02:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nanomagnets-control-diamond-qubits-pointing-to-more-scalable-quantum-hardware"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:28:23","slug":"nanomagnets-control-diamond-qubits-pointing-to-more-scalable-quantum-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nanomagnets-control-diamond-qubits-pointing-to-more-scalable-quantum-hardware","title":{"rendered":"Nanomagnets control diamond qubits, pointing to more scalable quantum hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanomagnets-control-diamond-qubits-pointing-to-more-scalable-quantum-hardware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing, once only a theoretical possibility, promises to deliver faster, more energy-efficient computers\u2014but only if scientists can build and scale the hardware needed to run the machines. New research from Virginia Commonwealth University brings scientists one small step closer to quantum computing at a practical scale, which could help dramatically reduce energy usage and computing times in some industries.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-73087-z\" target=\"_blank\">recently published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the researchers used minuscule magnets\u2014twice as small as the wavelength of light\u2014to create the building blocks of quantum computing, pioneering a technique that could decrease the physical space needed to create a viable quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work has the potential to advance quantum computing,\u201d said Jayasimha Atulasimha, Ph.D., a professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering in VCU\u2019s College of Engineering and the study\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cWe\u2019re solving a specific problem for spin-based quantum computing, which has the potential for scaling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing, once only a theoretical possibility, promises to deliver faster, more energy-efficient computers\u2014but only if scientists can build and scale the hardware needed to run the machines. New research from Virginia Commonwealth University brings scientists one small step closer to quantum computing at a practical scale, which could help dramatically reduce energy usage and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,4,873,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238314","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=238314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}