{"id":26659,"date":"2016-06-08T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/world-first-pinpointing-of-atoms-at-work-for-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:16:21","slug":"world-first-pinpointing-of-atoms-at-work-for-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/world-first-pinpointing-of-atoms-at-work-for-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"World-first pinpointing of atoms at work for quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-pinpointing-of-atoms-at-work-for-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists can now identify the exact location of a single atom in a silicon crystal, a discovery that is key for greater accuracy in tomorrow\u2019s silicon based quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now possible to track and see individual phosphorus atoms in a silicon crystal allowing confirmation of quantum computing capability, but which also has use in nano detection devices.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing has the potential for enormous processing power in the future. Current laptops have transistors that use a binary code, an on-or-off state (bits). But tomorrow\u2019s quantum computers will use quantum bits \u2018qubits\u2019, which have multiple states.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160608103956.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160608103956.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice! Scientists can now identify the exact location of a single atom in a silicon crystal, a discovery that is key for greater accuracy in tomorrow\u2019s silicon based quantum computers. It\u2019s now possible to track and see individual phosphorus atoms in a silicon crystal allowing confirmation of quantum computing capability, but which also has use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26659","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=26659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61582,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26659\/revisions\/61582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}