{"id":244137,"date":"2026-09-17T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/harvard-scientists-use-tiny-sound-waves-to-protect-quantum-information"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:30:26","slug":"harvard-scientists-use-tiny-sound-waves-to-protect-quantum-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/harvard-scientists-use-tiny-sound-waves-to-protect-quantum-information","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists Use Tiny Sound Waves To Protect Quantum Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-use-tiny-sound-waves-to-protect-quantum-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The same tiny vibrations that carry quantum information across a chip could also keep that information from fading away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies face a persistent problem: qubits are extraordinarily sensitive to disturbances from their surroundings. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have now protected a qubit using mechanical vibrations, essentially sound waves at the quantum scale.<\/p>\n<p>The advance came from the laboratory of Marko Lon\u010dar, Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering. It could help make quantum networks smaller, reduce interference between components, and connect different kinds of qubits within a single hybrid system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same tiny vibrations that carry quantum information across a chip could also keep that information from fading away. Quantum technologies face a persistent problem: qubits are extraordinarily sensitive to disturbances from their surroundings. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have now protected a qubit using mechanical [\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-244137","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\/244137","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=244137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}