{"id":241997,"date":"2026-08-01T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/two-independent-studies-push-semiconductor-qubits-towards-practical-scales"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:27:46","slug":"two-independent-studies-push-semiconductor-qubits-towards-practical-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/two-independent-studies-push-semiconductor-qubits-towards-practical-scales","title":{"rendered":"Two independent studies push semiconductor qubits towards practical scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-independent-studies-push-semiconductor-qubits-towards-practical-scales3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor spin qubits are one of the most promising building blocks for future quantum computers, but turning them into a working, large-scale quantum computer has so far proven difficult. For now, two big questions remain open: how to connect qubits that aren\u2019t sitting right next to each other, and how to control huge numbers of them without an unmanageable tangle of wiring.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two independent studies published in <i>Nature<\/i> have each reported new experiments tackling these problems head-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor spin qubits are one of the most promising building blocks for future quantum computers, but turning them into a working, large-scale quantum computer has so far proven difficult. For now, two big questions remain open: how to connect qubits that aren\u2019t sitting right next to each other, and how to control huge numbers of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241997","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\/241997","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=241997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}