{"id":238479,"date":"2026-06-06T02:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/atom-based-quantum-computers-are-catching-up-in-the-race-to-usefulness"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:32:59","slug":"atom-based-quantum-computers-are-catching-up-in-the-race-to-usefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/atom-based-quantum-computers-are-catching-up-in-the-race-to-usefulness","title":{"rendered":"Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-based-quantum-computers-are-catching-up-in-the-race-to-usefulness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238479","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}