{"id":25893,"date":"2016-05-19T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-device-steps-toward-isolating-single-electrons-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:20:53","slug":"new-device-steps-toward-isolating-single-electrons-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-device-steps-toward-isolating-single-electrons-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"New device steps toward isolating single electrons for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally, some well deserved recogonition to Argonne Natl. Labs in their efforts on QC with the Univ. Of Chicago.<\/p>\n

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If biochemists had access to a quantum computer, they could perfectly simulate the properties of new molecules to develop novel drugs in ways that would take the fastest existing computers decades.<\/p>\n

Electrons represent an ideal quantum bit, with a \u201cspin\u201d that when pointing up can represent a 0 and down can represent a 1. Such bits are small\u2014even smaller than an atom\u2014and because they do not interact strongly, they can remain quantum for long periods. However, exploiting electrons as qubits also poses a challenge because they must be trapped and manipulated. Which is exactly what David Schuster, assistant professor of physics, and his collaborators at UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory<\/a> and Yale University have done.<\/p>\n

\u201cA key aspect of this experiment is that we have integrated trapped electrons with more well-developed superconducting quantum circuits,\u201d said graduate student Ge Yang, lead author of the Physical Review X<\/a><\/em> paper<\/a> that reported the group\u2019s findings. The team captured the electrons by coaxing them to float above the surface of liquid helium at extremely low temperatures.<\/p>\n

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