{"id":25600,"date":"2016-05-11T23:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T06:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-toy-street-lamps-are-shedding-new-light-on-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:05","slug":"how-toy-street-lamps-are-shedding-new-light-on-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-toy-street-lamps-are-shedding-new-light-on-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"How toy street lamps are shedding new light on quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-toy-street-lamps-are-shedding-new-light-on-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cALL ABOARD\u201d the QC train is leaving the station.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever had a train set, you might remember the tiny street lamps that are often part of the model landscape. Today, the bulbs from those toy lamps are helping to shed light on quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there\u2019s been a spate of developments lately in quantum computing, and not just IBM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3065654\/hardware\/ibms-quantum-computing-processor-comes-out-of-hiding.html\">announcement<\/a> of its upcoming cloud service. Here are three recent advances from research institutions around the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/3069513\/how-toy-street-lamps-are-shedding-new-light-on-quantum-computing.html\">http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/3069513\/how-toy-street-lamps-are-...uting.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cALL ABOARD\u201d the QC train is leaving the station. If you\u2019ve ever had a train set, you might remember the tiny street lamps that are often part of the model landscape. Today, the bulbs from those toy lamps are helping to shed light on quantum computing. In fact, there\u2019s been a spate of developments lately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67518,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600\/revisions\/67518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}