{"id":28102,"date":"2016-07-20T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-device-lengthens-the-life-of-quantum-information"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:13:38","slug":"new-device-lengthens-the-life-of-quantum-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-device-lengthens-the-life-of-quantum-information","title":{"rendered":"New device lengthens the life of quantum information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-lengthens-the-life-of-quantum-information.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale University scientists have reached a milestone in their efforts to extend the durability and dependability of quantum information.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers at Yale have crossed the \u201cbreak even\u201d point in preserving a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> for longer than the lifetime of its constituent parts. They have created a novel system to encode, spot errors, decode, and correct errors in a quantum bit, also known as a \u201cqubit.\u201d The development of such a robust method of Quantum Error Correction (QEC) has been one of the biggest remaining hurdles in quantum computation.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published online July 20 in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-yale-developed-device-lengthens-life-quantum.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;07-yale-developed-device-lengt...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale University scientists have reached a milestone in their efforts to extend the durability and dependability of quantum information. For the first time, researchers at Yale have crossed the \u201cbreak even\u201d point in preserving a bit of quantum information for longer than the lifetime of its constituent parts. They have created a novel system to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102","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=28102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50121,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102\/revisions\/50121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}