{"id":245654,"date":"2026-10-19T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-monolithic-ion-trap-opens-quantum-simulations-to-more-researchers"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:53:36","slug":"new-monolithic-ion-trap-opens-quantum-simulations-to-more-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-monolithic-ion-trap-opens-quantum-simulations-to-more-researchers","title":{"rendered":"New monolithic ion trap opens quantum simulations to more researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FT32vJruG8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some quantum systems are so complex that even the most powerful supercomputers struggle to simulate their behavior. One solution is quantum simulation: building a controllable quantum system in the lab and tuning it to mimic the one researchers want to understand.<\/p>\n<p>In a trapped-ion simulator, a row of individual charged atoms, or ions, is held in place by electric fields inside a device called an ion trap. Lasers are used to make the ions interact in a manner that simulates the quantum system, and then researchers measure the information encoded in the ions to reveal the system\u2019s properties.<\/p>\n<p>Rice University\u2019s Guido Pagano, along with collaborators at Duke University and Translume Inc., has developed a new kind of trapped-ion simulator, called a monolithic segmented 3D ion trap. This trap allowed the team to study these complex systems using heavy ions like ytterbium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quantum systems are so complex that even the most powerful supercomputers struggle to simulate their behavior. One solution is quantum simulation: building a controllable quantum system in the lab and tuning it to mimic the one researchers want to understand. In a trapped-ion simulator, a row of individual charged atoms, or ions, is held [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245654","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=245654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}