{"id":243978,"date":"2026-09-12T01:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/helium-3-lifts-new-quantum-computing-concept-with-faster-tunneling-rates"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:37:29","slug":"helium-3-lifts-new-quantum-computing-concept-with-faster-tunneling-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/helium-3-lifts-new-quantum-computing-concept-with-faster-tunneling-rates","title":{"rendered":"Helium-3 lifts new quantum computing concept with faster tunneling rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/helium-3-lifts-new-quantum-computing-concept-with-faster-tunneling-rates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helium\u2014the lightest atom that can be laser-cooled and controlled\u2014powers a new design for high-powered, stable quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/hpnb-6ql3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>PRX Quantum<\/i>, a team led by University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Physics Department Associate Professor Jacob Covey outlined a new concept that could turn helium\u2019s light weight into the next generation of quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Once built, the computer could use high-powered lasers as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-physicists-optical-tweezer-array-individual.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">\u201coptical tweezers\u201d<\/a> to capture and control individual helium atoms, the second-lightest element overall and the lightest that can be trapped with current technology. This offers a major advance over designs based on lithium, the third-lightest element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helium\u2014the lightest atom that can be laser-cooled and controlled\u2014powers a new design for high-powered, stable quantum computers. In a paper published in PRX Quantum, a team led by University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Physics Department Associate Professor Jacob Covey outlined a new concept that could turn helium\u2019s light weight into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243978","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\/243978","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=243978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}