{"id":29129,"date":"2016-08-19T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/progress-made-in-development-of-quantum-memory"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:23:03","slug":"progress-made-in-development-of-quantum-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/progress-made-in-development-of-quantum-memory","title":{"rendered":"Progress made in development of quantum memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/progress-made-in-development-of-quantum-memory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since QUESS has been online, China has been able to deliver the 1st set of programmable code, transmit communications back-and-forth from the satellite, and now they have been able to expand the memory capacity up to 100 Qubits. These are pretty big steps since the satellite has been in orbit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>BTW \u2014 the 1st 2 events are directly a result of QUESS; the 3rd advancement isn\u2019t the result of QUESS and resulted after QUESS\u2019 launch.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Although Chinese scientists said there is still a long way to go before any ultrapowerful machine can be developed, progress has been made in terms of quantum memory technology, which is a key component to quantum computing and quantum communication.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, China launched the world\u2019s first quantum experimental satellite in an attempt to build a space-based quantum communication network.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou Zongquan, a scientist in the field, told China Daily that following the breakthrough in 2011 when scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China developed the world\u2019s first quantum memory of 1 quantum bit, or qubit, they have now developed a memory of 100 qubits.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/cndy\/2016-08\/20\/content_26541707.htm\">http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/cndy\/2016&#45;08\/20\/content_26541707.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since QUESS has been online, China has been able to deliver the 1st set of programmable code, transmit communications back-and-forth from the satellite, and now they have been able to expand the memory capacity up to 100 Qubits. These are pretty big steps since the satellite has been in orbit on Tuesday. BTW \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129","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=29129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66515,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129\/revisions\/66515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}