{"id":73997,"date":"2017-11-29T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/key-component-to-scale-up-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:19","slug":"key-component-to-scale-up-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/key-component-to-scale-up-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Key component to scale up quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-component-to-scale-up-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team at the University of Sydney and Microsoft, in collaboration with Stanford University in the US, has miniaturised a component that is essential for the scale-up of quantum computing. The work constitutes the first practical application of a new phase of matter, first discovered in 2006, the so-called topological insulators.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the familiar phases of matter \u2014 solid, liquid, or gas \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/topological+insulators\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">topological insulators<\/a> are materials that operate as insulators in the bulk of their structures but have surfaces that act as conductors. Manipulation of these materials provide a pathway to construct the circuitry needed for the interaction between <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> and classical systems, vital for building a practical quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical work underpinning the discovery of this new phase of matter was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-11-key-component-scale-quantum.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;11-key-component-scale-quantum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at the University of Sydney and Microsoft, in collaboration with Stanford University in the US, has miniaturised a component that is essential for the scale-up of quantum computing. The work constitutes the first practical application of a new phase of matter, first discovered in 2006, the so-called topological insulators. Beyond the familiar phases [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73997","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\/73997","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74059,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions\/74059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}