{"id":32138,"date":"2016-11-22T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:12:34","slug":"new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"New Method Could Make Quantum Computers a Reality Sooner Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\/futurism.com\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought\/\">\/futurism.com\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have created quantum dot light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that can produce entangled photons, which could be used to encode information in quantum computing.<\/li>\n<li>As of June, the record for the most photons entangled at a time was 10. Before that, the record was eight and that could only be produced at a rate of around nine events per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers from the Tyndall National Institute have devised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphoton\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nphoton.2016.203.html\" target=\"_blank\">a method<\/a> that would make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqc2t.org\/research\/photonic_quantum_computation\" target=\"_blank\">entangling photons<\/a> easier, and accelerate our journey towards the quantum computing age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have engineered a scalable array of electrically driven quantum dots using easily-sourced materials and conventional semiconductor fabrication technologies, and our method allows you to direct the position of these sources of entangled photons,\u201d says researcher Emanuele Pelucchi.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers...e-thought\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/futurism.com\/new-method-could-make-quantum-computers-a-reality-sooner-than-we-thought\/ In Brief Researchers have created quantum dot light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that can produce entangled photons, which could be used to encode information in quantum computing. As of June, the record for the most photons entangled at a time was 10. Before that, the record was eight and that could only be produced at a [\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-32138","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\/32138","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=32138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59696,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138\/revisions\/59696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}