{"id":247331,"date":"2026-11-14T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/physicists-propose-a-supercurrent-to-read-qubits-without-destroying-their-quantum-state"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:07:21","slug":"physicists-propose-a-supercurrent-to-read-qubits-without-destroying-their-quantum-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/physicists-propose-a-supercurrent-to-read-qubits-without-destroying-their-quantum-state","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Propose a \u2018Supercurrent\u2019 To Read Qubits Without Destroying Their Quantum State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The qubits at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\">quantum computing systems<\/a> are the equivalent of the binary bits that classical computing processors use \u2013 but while classical bits can only be 1 or 0, qubits can be 1, 0, or a blend of both (superposition), a flexibility that promises to transform the power of our computers.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one nagging problem with superposition, which is that as soon as a qubit is accessed and measured, its value then gets fixed to 1 or 0. The instant it\u2019s checked up on, the most useful characteristic of the qubit disappears.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers from China and Brazil, publishing their work in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/6gkt-hghj\"><em>Physical Review B<\/em><\/a>, think they have a solution to the problem. Essentially, it involves reading the electrical current produced by a qubit, rather than the qubit itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The qubits at the center of quantum computing systems are the equivalent of the binary bits that classical computing processors use \u2013 but while classical bits can only be 1 or 0, qubits can be 1, 0, or a blend of both (superposition), a flexibility that promises to transform the power of our computers. There\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247331","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\/247331","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}