{"id":28772,"date":"2016-08-09T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/laser-firing-chip-signals-huge-leap-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:00:22","slug":"laser-firing-chip-signals-huge-leap-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/laser-firing-chip-signals-huge-leap-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Laser-firing chip signals huge leap for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-firing-chip-signals-huge-leap-for-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I shared this news yesterday, this article provide some added details.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Efforts towards realising a practical quantum computer have been given a huge boost after a team of researchers made successful advances in qubit miniaturisation.<\/p>\n<p>Qubits or quantum bits are the basic building blocks behind quantum computing and hold the capacity to process enormous computational tasks in real-time. However, working out how to miniaturise the technology remains a huge obstacle to quantum computer development.<\/p>\n<p>One approach to the challenge involves trapped ions, but this requires large and complicated hardware components. Now, researchers at MIT are developing a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/toward-practical-quantum-computers-0808\" target=\"_blank\">prototype chip<\/a> which is able to trap ions in an electric field and control them using targeted laser technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thestack.com\/world\/2016\/08\/09\/laser-firing-chip-signals-huge-leap-for-quantum-computing\/\">https:\/\/thestack.com\/world\/2016\/08\/09\/laser-firing-chip-sign...computing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I shared this news yesterday, this article provide some added details. Efforts towards realising a practical quantum computer have been given a huge boost after a team of researchers made successful advances in qubit miniaturisation. Qubits or quantum bits are the basic building blocks behind quantum computing and hold the capacity to process enormous [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772","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=28772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60875,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772\/revisions\/60875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}