{"id":23994,"date":"2016-03-26T02:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/physicists-demonstrate-a-quantum-fredkin-gate"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:41","slug":"physicists-demonstrate-a-quantum-fredkin-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/physicists-demonstrate-a-quantum-fredkin-gate","title":{"rendered":"Physicists demonstrate a quantum Fredkin gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-demonstrate-a-quantum-fredkin-gate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit\u2014the quantum Fredkin gate\u2014for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allure of quantum computers is the unparalleled processing power that they provide compared to current technology,\u201d said Dr Raj Patel from Griffith\u2019s Centre for Quantum Dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch like our everyday computer, the brains of a quantum computer consist of chains of logic gates, although quantum logic gates harness quantum phenomena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-03-physicists-quantum-fredkin-gate.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;03-physicists-quantum-fredkin-gate.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit\u2014the quantum Fredkin gate\u2014for the first time. \u201cThe allure of quantum computers is the unparalleled processing power that they provide compared [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23994","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\/23994","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67907,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions\/67907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}