{"id":28631,"date":"2016-08-03T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/programmable-ions-set-the-stage-for-general-purpose-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:27:59","slug":"programmable-ions-set-the-stage-for-general-purpose-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/programmable-ions-set-the-stage-for-general-purpose-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Programmable ions set the stage for general-purpose quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-ions-set-the-stage-for-general-purpose-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>To date, many research groups have created small but functional <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> computers. By combining a handful of atoms, electrons or superconducting junctions, researchers now regularly demonstrate quantum effects and run simple <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+algorithms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum algorithms <\/a>\u2014small programs dedicated to solving particular problems.<\/p>\n<p>But these laboratory devices are often hard-wired to run one program or limited to fixed patterns of interactions between the quantum constituents. Making a quantum computer that can run arbitrary algorithms requires the right kind of physical system and a suite of programming tools. Atomic <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ions<\/a>, confined by fields from nearby electrodes, are among the most promising platforms for meeting these needs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-programmable-ions-stage-general-purpose-quantum.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-programmable-ions-stage-gen...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical challenges. To date, many research groups have created small but functional quantum computers. By combining a handful of atoms, electrons or superconducting junctions, researchers now regularly demonstrate quantum effects and run simple quantum algorithms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66685,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions\/66685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}